Arrival to Chang Mai

Woke up naturally at 2 am. Then 3 am. Then 5.6.and 7 our alarm was set for eight. Packed up our stuff and made the 840am airport shuttle for our 1035 flight. Has to get dropped off at terminal 2 for checkin. Then go downstairs exit hing kong customs then catch a train to terminal one, go to out gate area hop a shuttle bus to our remote terminal and then get to our gate. All without breakfast. So we stopped for food within our gate, ordered our food and I checked our gate "final boarding" thirty five minutes before scheduled. Freak out mode! Told the gate agent we just ordered food and he said oh take your time I'll come find you. Phew. Got our food. Boarded not last. And then sat at the gate for 45 more minutes. Oh well. Seats are very tight for us tall Americans watched Harry potter 2 and 3 and ate our really good Chinese noodles for breakfast.

Made it into chaing Mai at 1pm. Walked until we found a tuktuk unloading passengers and asked him to bring us to anoma boutique guest house within old city. 3$ for the 10 minute drive. Checked in and our house owners organized us a car for 50$ to bring us to tiger kingdom and the gold temple on the hill for sunset.

Tiger kingdom was 3800 baht (100$) for the two of us to go in all five cages with two cages with professional photographers. Smallest and biggest cages got the photographer. Waited and then let in the medium small smallest small big cages. The babies were very playful. Most the others were sleeping. Oh, it's like 80 and humid here :-)

Big ones weren't as bad as I remember even though they were walking everywhere. After the park we went up the windy road to the golden temple overlooking te city of chaing Mai. Gorgeous. Grabbed some pork balls on a stuck for a light snack. Then we started the half hour drive back to the hotel. I fell asleep in the car and woke up back at our hotel. Where we crawled into bed at 7pm and were out for the count. Tomorrow is the elephant park!