Thailand!

Hello again! This time I'm typing from a little compuer in our host's home in the city of Ayutthaya in the wonderful kingdom of Thailand!
We spent the first couple of nights in Bangkok. incredibly bstling city with pollution so thick you don't need sunscreen... when peole see you with a backpack they swarm around you trying to see you things and take you places...
The "tuk tuk" drivers are wonderful... you can take a little 3 wheel vehical big enough to carry two passengers all round the downtown all afternoon for about 60 baht (about $1.75CAD) and they wait for you while you are going into temples and seeing Buddhas... sitting Buddha, standing Buddha, lucky Buddha, reclining Buddha, and the list goes on. Beautiul city, heaps to see and do... Brandon and I were payng about 400 baht for a night ($12CAD) for a twin room... so split that two ways.... very nice
Decided to go up to Chang Mai and do a trek. We booked with the TAT, the ourism agency here.. Not entirely sure if the deal is as sweet as it could be... but all of our travel and acomidation is included, we climb into the thai rainforest... mountains, ride elephants and bamboo rafts for part of it... stay with the locals and what have you... and it's all very much within our budget. We arrive in Chang Mai in a few days.
Thailand is amazing. The people we have met are very friendly, and genuinely helpful (or in the case of some, the polar opposite) the food is excellent (I just finished a plate of octopus and squid with rice and an amzazing chili sauce for less than $5) We spent the day ridinga train in the morning and the afternoon visitng beautiful old temples and I saw the hugest gold buddha I have ever seen today. The climate is nice. humid and very warm. we are staying at a high class place tonight... thinking of getting an aromatic oil accupressure massage tonight (the best is $12/h!) and going out to see the temples with their night lighting. off by bus (long ride) tomarrow to our next stop in Sukhothai for a couple of nights.
this keyboard is crap. seriously. it's in thai and english and it's in my host's house.. kids computer. I should go. Their mom gave them the boot so I could go on... I feel bad.
ok. all is well. we're healthy, exploring lots... saw elephants, geckos, thai squirrels and a striped centipeed half a foot long today hahah. and we're out of bangkok so things are much more relaxed. our accomidations are really booked and really upper class for the next few days.. so we're good.
Alright. love you all and e're having the time of our lives!