Thailand Trip (Day 14)

Day 14:
Today (Friday) everyone at the base woke early to have breakfast and clean. Every Friday GVI does a full base clean which is quite intense. After the clean, I headed to the net cafe to use Skype to call home. It was good to see Mom, Dad, Michael, and of course the pets. Following the call we headed to the school for Friday class. The morning class we good and the kids were happy to see us. At the end of the period the students decided to get our autographs and also wanted us to draw them pictures in their notebooks. I was given a note that said "I love you" by one kid and we were both given some candy. Mike was also given a cool small wooden turtle. I guess the kids are really enjoying the English lessons! In the afternoon we had another English class and afterwards headed back to the base for a Thai cooking class. The class mainly consisted of chopping lots of different strange vegetables (some that looked like alien plants) and the actual cooking took less than 10 minutes. We made Pad Thai Chicken, Green Curry, and Tom Yamn Soup (Thai spicy soup). They were all delicious. After dinner we headed off for the weekend to meet up with Kirsti, Shaun, and Morag. They were headed to Railay Beach. We took a local bus from the junction in Ao Luk to Krabi and decided to stay there for the night (as we heard about a night market). From the place the bus dropped us off we got local transportation to downtown Krabi and after a slight transportation mishap we arrived at the Thai Hotel in Krabi. The hotel told us the room was 700 Baht for the night, but when we told them we were with GVI the rate was reduced to 500! We ventured out to the night market to find a myriad of food vendors, but nothing else. After eating such an elaborate dinner, we decided to head back to the hotel and enjoy the night of AC and Discovery Channel (the one English channel at the hotel).