We visited the Northernmost point of Thailand.
You could see across the bridge into Myanmar. Which is probably more exciting if you haven’t been to Myanmar.
A woman was fishing with an awkwardly shaped net in the river. Across the river is Laos.
There was a giant golden Buddha. Just like everywhere else.
We did a day trip to the White Temple. It was not what we expected.
It was like a giant modern art piece that is still being constructed.
I don’t quite get all the meanings.
Struggle I guess.
It reminds me of scenes from anime.
And of course if there is an unreachable place with a container it will have coins tossed into it.
In pictures from further away it isn’t clear what gives highlights to the pieces. Up close you can see they have thousands of pieces of glass/mirrors.
Inside the temple photos are not allowed. The walls are painted with decorations including:
You think we are making this up, but we really aren’t that creative.
At the front of the temple is a life sized very realistic and creepy wax sculpture of the Buddha mediating sitting under a gold meditating Buddha and a white Buddha.
For $1 you could buy one of these little foil thingies and write your name on it with a sharpie.
The walkway roof was lined with these things tightly packed, and there were several trees like this.
It was quite the experience. 
But then you see stuff like this and are confused as to what is going on. I mean sure the predator is cool, but why is it here.
And faces of wolverine and maleficent hanging from a tree.
In Thailand we saw lots of millipedes.
And a water strider.
Actually many waterstriders.
Lots and lots of them.
There was also a really pretty pink dragonfly.
And a less pretty spider.
Matt made a spicy red curry. These were the starting ingredients:
This was all put into a mortar and smashed to oblivion.
This made the orangish curry paste on the left of the plate.
To make the curry you take:
You heat the coconut cream in the wok and then add the curry paste and stir over medium heat until fragrant and the oil surfaces. Then you add the chicken and stir for 1-2 minutes. Then add palm sugar, fish sauce and tamarind sauce. Continue stirring for another minute then add potato and coconut milk. Cook over medium heat until chicken is cooked.
Add cinnamon, cardamom pods, star anise and stew for 10 minutes. Then add bay leaves and remove from heat.
Kerri made Panang Curry, the least spicy curry.
The ingredients were:
This is Kerri doing the fine chopping.
And then she ground the whole mess with a mortar and pestle.
After making the paste we had to decide how spicy we wanted our curry. Elementary school, high school or University level.
Kerri answered “newborn”.
So she gave me the tiny daub on the left. Matt’s is on the right with much more of the spicier red curry paste.
Then it was heated in a wok with 1 cup coconut cream, 100g chicken breast 1 tbsp pea eggplant, 2 tsp palm sugar and 2 tbsp fish sauce.
And then some other stuff was thrown on top for garnish.
It tastes like spicy coconut milk. The only way to make it worse would be to add chocolate.
So Matt got double curry.
