Snapshots of the last week

• Maeve and I went on a 3-day trek out of Chiang Mai. The other people on the trek were all couples except for a family from Germany that included their 7 year old daughter. We hung out with her a lot. She knew the phrases "poo-poo" "pee-pee" and "hey ladies!". The second night of our trek is was Maeve and I and two guides alone in a village playing cards and drinking beer.
  
• We went on an elephant ride. This was one of the worst experiences of my life. We were side by side on this seat on top of the elephant. Then the elephant would go downhill so we were hanging onto the back of the chair, approaching a vertical position. Then the elephant started picking up dirt with it's trunk and throwing it at us. I thought I was going to die, or at least break a leg.
  
• Today we rented a moto-scooter. It had gears and everything. And people drive on the left here. It was SO much fun. We drove to some hot springs and to a waterfall. The drive itself (all at about 30km/h) was breath-taking.
  
• We took a Thai cooking course. It was wickid.
  
• We were kicked out of our guesthouse. This is very embarrassing. I will admit that we committed a faux pas - we wanted to go on this eco-trek but there was no one else signed up so we posted a note on the Message Board at our hostel. But our hostel also sent out treks of their own. When we came back it was gone and the manager came up to our room and told us that we had insulted the treks that they do and advertised for someone else and could we please check-out of the hostel. We felt really awful about the whole thing until we started drinking.