wet shorts and short stories

so i did some more exploring today. i ate a marvelous breakfast at a guesthouse and cafe known as blue diamond. it is on soi 8 and i highly recommend it if you are traveling this way. they also have nutritious snacks you can buy and hilltribe coffee from the hilltribe. then i went to doi suthep. the story behind this is one of the rama's set a white elephant (they get all of them as considered royalty) with a special buddha free to have it delivered to a holy spot. well, where the elephant died is where they built the temple. it's a 100baht ride on sawngtheaw's to get up there but it is up the mountain. i got some good pictures and was blessed by a monk. then i returned to chiang mai on the back of a sanwgtheaw standing up. it was so much fun. people looked at me like i was crazy (hmmm) as we ere driving really fast down a mountain. i've done dumber things. so we get back down and i go to get my bike so i can devour some more eclectic foods not of the southwest, but still with some heat. out of nowhere i get a call to be ready to go fro my friend sophie i haven't seen in 12 years or so and she pickes me up on a motorbike and we go get a car. we are headed to a lake to swim and eat. we get there and who is the next person to arrive but my friend lee. who i also haven't seen i the same amount of time and ironically enough we all lived in the same house. how strange is that? lee jsut got out of prison for being two days on his immigration as he was in hte hospital having a blood transfusion. hte thai police didn't care. so he did 2.5 months. lame. then we go swimming as more thai punks and tattoo artist show up. it was wonderful warm water and we had tubes. all in all a delight. then the food comes. it was tom yum, vegetables, some kao (rice), a big whole fish that was spicy, and soem live shrimp and other things. i have never eaten anything still alive before. it was a awakening and intense experience. and a delicious one. then the sun set and we hung out mawinly by candle light and came homw. i ate some food and am going to bed as i have 4 (four) dental appointments tomorrow. i will write more then. good night