Excuse me...I'm Pai

So we walk into a bookstore and Rachel asks what time they close, the girl says "at 9 or 10." A bunch of Thai hippie kids are jammin Bob Marley songs and Oasis on the side of the street sharing whiskey and cigs.  Pai lifers teaching yoga and bamboo tattoo artists at every other corner, 2 street lights, and beautiful mountains, sunsets, waterfalls and hot springs = Π (pie, or PAI).  If I lived here I'd turn into a pot smoking hippie - probably selling ice cream in street made waffles, just like the ones we ate before going to the pool (where I wrote this from). 

Our first day in Pai we ate some amazing curry from a man who was running the tiny little shack all on his own - doing it all - and all so well.  That night we decided to go out to some bars and ended up in a all reggae music place with strong whiskey buckets.  We tried to bargain prices - the dreadlock Thai Rasta was not havin it.  We proceeded to the next bar, Don't Cry, for free shots.  We bought 2 and got 2 free...and 2 more..and 2 more..and so on...We met some cool ppl and by the end of the night Rachel and I talked with English accents and repeated the infamous "you sound like your from London," where ppl responded "I am."  Which made us laugh bc we don't think they understood our reference to Forgetting Sarah Marshall.  Regardless, we had a great time drinkin, minglin, and chillin by the bonfire which has become a regular routine for us.  I have also concluded that fire and water are my favorite elements.

The next morning (a big hungover) we headed to the hotsprings with our new friends from Bend, Oregon and Australia..Logan and Harly.  They were so goofy and made us laugh.  Logan says some off the wall shit.   The kinda stuff that you have to be there to hear and think its funny.  The hot springs were SOOO hott that they were BOILING and smelled like sulfur.  We caught the sunset on the drive back.

At night we were walking on the street and saw some Thai hippies jammin out.  We joined their circle, where they shared their whiskey and had a cool jam session.  Singing bob marley and oasis...thought of JULIA :).  Just chillin in the middle of the street, in Pai, with alcohol and music - why not this where I come from?  Later that night we relocated to one of the dudes houses - but who really knows..who or how many ppl lived there.  They made LOTS of instand Ramen noodle in a big community bowl for everyone to share, more whiskey and 4 french dreadlock hippies jammin french reggae.

Next morning I went to a 2 hour yoga session where the "yoga hut" i called it, was just like you'd picture...a light breeze, mellow music, and slow yoga with 30 minutes of meditation....tmrw we are going to another yoga place and then off to Phuket Island in the South!