We got up this morning around 5 am and our Deaf guide and driver at 6 am. All of us went to a town named Ratchiburi and went to the floating market for a couple of hours then saw a monkey show. We stopped for lunch in Ratchiburi and ate some fried shelled worms.
We went to a shore near Ratchiburi, rode on a boat and fed some watermelons to long tailed macaques (monkeys) We stopped by Siam Cultural Park and learned about the culture of Thailand. We also learned about important Thai people in history.
We just got back to our hotel around 6:30 pm and we are exhausted from such a long day! Some of us are swimming in the pool and we will have a light dinner that we will find somewhere on the street near our hotel.
Good Night,
NMSDers in Thailand
P.s. Please note, we added some more pictures to the April 16th transportation blog.
On the way to the floating market.
What a wonderful market!
Grace (Tim's mom), Tim bought a pet at the market and is bringing it home! :)
Taking in the sights!
The monkey show.
Chilling...
Isn't Thai writing beautiful?
Fried worms! Yum! Must have tasted like chicken! (According to sponsor Pat, tasted like clams)
(Literary suggestion: "How to Eat Fried Worms" by Thomas Rockwell seems to apply here)
Enjoying Thai cuisine. Kendrick's a bit flipped over the fried worms.
More local cuisine.
"Faster! In that direction! The kids are getting away!"
Feeding watermelons to local citizenry.
Another form of local transportation.
We love you too!
We are becoming museum exhibits ourselves!
Learning more and more!
Hadassah: We went to the floating market. After that, we had lunch and some of us had fried worms. Now we are going to feed watermelons to monkeys. It’s quite muddy here!
Tyrel: We did many different things today. My favorite was
the floating market because we could go through many different shops and see
many things and shop. We could see how they did their business and the weather
was pretty cool also.
