Kayaking on the Ping River

I had an awesome day with my new friend, Emily. She's super cool and is just herself all the time! I love hanging out with somebody who is very real and is a true cool creation of the Father! Anyways...we hung out and went kayaking on the Ping River.

I'd say it was around 100 degrees and we felt every bit of it out on the river! We walked around trying to find the little kayak place and got turned around a couple of times. Since we were walking all of this, it took quite a while to get there. When we finally did, I felt like I was walking through someone's house to get through to the back yard which was really the bank to the river. We squeezed ourselves into these super bright yellow kayaks. Here we go floating down the Ping in these huge banana boats!! We're grateful that the mosquitos weren't too bad and the sun was going down which really made it beautiful! We just chilled for most of the time and leisurely floated until we were ready to leave, then we really hauled it and paddled hard to get back.

We passed a few vacationers armed with cameras snapping photos of the american kayaking girls! A policeman was chillin on the bank and he was nice and waved to us and asked how we were doing. But we had a great time talking and laughing and making fun of each other and enjoying a beautifully day created for us to soak up!

Then, we went back to the Night Market area and ran right into a wind storm!! It was crazy!! It looked like it was raining, but it was the wind swirling dust around. All the peeps selling stuff were scurrying to cover their merchandise with sheets of plastic. Here's Emily hanging on to dear life! She survived the wind just fine. My stomach was hurting though...from laughing so hard! We had a blast and the Thais enjoyed laughing at us, I think!