Fish time

After trying to post more, I finally figured out which button to push. Well that's good news.

Last Friday we went to a fish Hatchery NGO about an hour north of Chiang Mai.  It was started by a Minnesotan named Randy 13 years ago and they raise millions of tilapia to sell to local farmers to raise.  We hopped in the fish ponds- quite muddy and great, just like the mushy pancake.  First, we emptied all the fish from one pond and carried them in small nets to another pond.  Then it was lunch time.  We had...TILAPIA! Who would've thought. But it was delicious and a very fun meal, followed by some entertainment on Thai instruments and a little dance lesson.
That afternoon, went through another pond to harvest the eggs.  Tilapia are mouth-brooders so we looked in each one's mouth for the eggs and collected them to bring to the hatchery.  After cleaning out a bunch of nets, we hit the road back to Chiang Mai, trying not to smell to fishy for our families (they are super into hygiene).  Overall, a swell day in the mud.

The weekend was pretty low key- went to the biggest mall ever to buy a cell phone and took a nice ride to Wat Doi Saket on Sunday afternoon with Pi Ahm (who I may or may not be related to, but I like her a lot). For the b-day dinner we had Thai bbq- a very fun and interactive meal There's a little grill on the table with a soup trough on the outside and you just cook meat and eat soup all through dinner.  Post dinner, the relatives came over to celebrate Pi I's birthday too- it was a lovely and fesitve evening.

Back to school now, nothing too new yet, but more to come.

Thai thai for now!