Chaing Mai

After a delayed flight in Chengdu, a night (very short) in a hotel in Bangkok, we finally made it to Chaing Mai for the Family Conference. Kathy calls it the "Land of Warm Feet" because at last our feet are warm. When we get back to Chengdu one of the first things we'll purchase is a small heater to put by our feet when we are home and at work. Hopefully the cold weather will break soon. I just read in an information sheet that spring comes early to Chengdu, tomorrow would be about right for us.

We ate a Thailand Mall food court today. Very interesting. From the Amazing Fish Plate to Fried Rice with Barracuda, from things that we didn't recognize to things that we wouldn't want to eat, it was unique. Not as interesting as the food bazaar outside our hotel last night. The most interesting table of food consisted of plates of deep fried cockroaches, grasshoppers, bees, grubs, beetles and small scorpions. We also passed on that.