is it raining, no that's my face

yes, its hot and muggy today. we head back to the dentist in an hour which means it's close to time for my sutures to be sliced out and my gums free again. no more silly putty mouth! now i have to write stuff down again. i wonder if it bounces. anyhow, back to chiang rai. the room was nice with fan and hot water but it is a bit out of the way and crickets in the room were not sleeping through the night. but we got the room and took our second shower of the day. on a usual day we can go through three which keeps us from smelling up a room and cool and refreshed. after the shower we headed down to find some food. low and behold the gargantuan weekly festival of saturday walking street lay in front of us. walking the line was pretty rad, it had a more laidback feel (as the whole town does) than chiang mai. we got some kitchen stuff and wooden spoon and forks to go with our mango, yes mango wood bowls. what! then there was a guy using nails to engrave rings on the street. charity got us each rings that say "we" on them! i dont know if i ever have been bought a ring before. upon our way back to the magical guesthouse on the river we come across the massage end of the street. hell, i love a good foot massage so why not. really i don't know if this guy could have squashed an already sliced tomato with the amount of pressure he used. i felt some new points though which were nice to learn and watched charity's to see how some stuff was done and where the pressure spots they used were. which was helpful. in the end they overcharged us too. but hey, we're farang you know! so we head back by this beautiful clock tower in the center of town and have soup on the street that was delicious. in the morning we walked by the same guy and wondered if he ever broke down or just lived at the cart. dedicated i tell you. this was the morning my mouth was getting a little more sore. i could feel it healing and the antibiotics were leaving me a little drained. we had breakfast at doi chang and notioced a new guesthouse, lek house. the place looked amazing for 300B. so i put on my new prescription sunglasses (strange yet spectacular) and we trekked opn over to check out what was soon to be our new residence. upon the way i seem to recall charity using the word hella and it brought a little bit of home here. next i will post more on chiang rai and what's to come