Concerts, lady boys and scuba galore!

It's been a fun filled few days since our last blog! We have fully immersed ourselves in the volunteer project, in fact we are even on the website! Scroll down to see pictures of us enjoying some of the best things Thailand has to offer; dancing with crazy Thais at a reggae concert and sampling grilled insects at a Thai carnival! We feel quite honored to have made the cut. Speaking of reggae concerts, we spent Thursday evening at a JOB2DO concert, they are Thailand's most famous reggae band, watch this video and you'll be hooked! We are currently sitting here singing along. The concert and surrounding carnival were a lot of fun and a great glimpse into everyday Thai life. We danced and sweated up a storm, but not quite as much as Barbara, our sassy 60 year old fellow volunteer. She is a hoot! As are the other volunteers we have been spending much time with, Sarah and Oliver. Sarah is a 27 year old hot ticket with a heart of gold from London and Oliver is an 60 year old Irish gemstone, not to mention Lauren's future father-in-law. Don't let Oliver and Babs' ages fool you, they drank us under the table, especially Babs at Friday's night lady boys cabaret! We can't stress how great and fun this bunch is and how we hope we are as fun, adventurous and giving when we are in our 60s. And FYI those lady boys had moves that we've never seen and we're not sure we need to see them again! Although Trish would like to take some dance lessons from them and we both want their abs and we really getting there with all of the banana pancakes and beer!

This weekend was devoted to scuba diving. Lauren successfully completed her open water certification and we celebrated by going diving in the Similan Islands. Just picture what scuba diving should be and that is what is was like, straight out of a dive magazine. The only thing you might not see in the magazine that we encounter were all of the men in speedos and all of the smoking, we thought smoking after scuba was a death wish but apparently divers of Thailand didn't get that memo. We saw tons of cool fish, turtles and really cool coral, it was simply divine! And we both got tan while doing it, what could be better?! Lauren's sunburn has made a turn for the better and hopefully she will catch up to Trish's golden hue. We both aim to look Thai-ish by the time we leave for Laos.

This week is all about volunteering. We are skipping the full moon party to fully dedicate ourselves to the project because it is so fun and the kids are worth it. We also have plans for a Thai cooking class at one of our favorite local restaurants on Wednesday and if all goes well, we plan to host a Thai family dinner to show off our skills when we return to SF so get your chopsticks ready!

We are currently exhausted from all the sun and scuba and are off to bed. Hope all is well worldwide with you all and we will post again later this week. Still working on getting some of Lauren's pics up, fingers crossed for this week!

xoxo
T&L