Muy Thai

 Since this was the first day of the workshop we had the morning to sleep in and acclimate to a much warmer and humid climate.  I really needed this time to regroup.

We started off our day with a quick review of the photos that people had taken preworkshop mainly at the Lantern Festival, which I missed because we were finishing up the previous trip.  The picture were great and I was sorry we missed it but perhaps another time.

We went to lunch at a lovely little restaurant that actually looked a little Dutch but it was definitely Thai.  I had Pad Thai, naturally, but also sampled many other dishes too.

We would visit many temples over the course of the week.  Thailand is almost 100% Buddhist.  There's lots of Buddhist statutes in of various forms along with Ghanish.  The first temple we visited was almost entirely hammered aluminum.  You could hear people working with hammers surrounding the temple.

It's was starting to look stormy so we were heading out of the temple into the night market with the rain came in earnest.  We duct into a pizza restaurant to try to wait out the worst of the rain before continuing on.  We finally gave up and just braved the weather.

After dinner we got to experience the Thai sport of Muay Thai.  I would liken it to our kick boxing.  We watched several bouts of both men and women before heading home for the evening.

Tomorrow: More temples