Biking in the Village

The other afternoon a bunch of us were craving soda’s or iced tea or something as we only get water around here.  Which is great with this heat but it's starting to get old! John had told us that there were three bikes at our disposal if we wanted to bike into the village.  Another volunteer, Haley, and I decided to try this out so we went to get the bikes in the back of the house. One was in working order and the other had a completely flat tire. We tried to put two people on the bike and just about ran into the house. So we commandeered another bike that the girls around here use. It worked well enough but it was super small. As I was shorter, I got the small pink bike! Our place is on the outskirts of town so it was about a half mile to a mile away and it was great ride. There isn’t much chance to get much physical activity around here as it’s too hot to really do anything unless it’s super early in the morning or later in the evening and it's getting dark around 6:00 these days.

 

We passed what looked like a outdoor market that had balloons and decided to get some! They looked so festive.  So the men told us that it was 10 baht and we had learned our colors that morning in Thai class so we were able to ask for certain balloons! Haley picked pink (sii-chom-puu) and I picked green (sii-kiao). However, the whole time we were trying to buy the balloons people were laughing and pointing at us. Now, we’re getting pretty used to this as we’re the only “farangs” (foreigners) in this area, but it seemed a little more pronounced than usual. We tried to ask but our Thai isn’t that great, so I’m still unsure as to what was going on. Either way, we had a good time. We also stopped at a little street cart for some street food (its good!!). I got a dinner crepe type thing while Haley ran into the store and got some drinks for us. It must have been at least 80 degrees with above 80 percent humidity and we were soo sweaty. fun, huh? It was a great ride though. Completely worth it. Can’t wait to do it again!