Yummmm...

This morning I got up early for one of the only things I will gladly get out of bed for...a cooking class. Chris and I took a Thai cooking class this morning with 7 other individuals and taught by a "experienced thai chef"--a little gay man w/cat figurines all over his cooking school. The day started off w/a trip to the market where we bought all of the ingredients we needed from galanga (a type of ginger) to prawns to chicken to chives and Keffir limes. After the market we went back to the cooking school and did all the prepping and cooking for 3 out of the 5 dishes we made. I can now say I can cook Pad Thai, Tom Yam Gung, Green Curry (including making the curry paste from scratch)--and observed while he made some chicken & cilantro salad w/sticky rice and water chestnuts coated w/tapioca and sweetened coconut milk. All I can say is....yummmmmmmmm! and no need for food for the rest of the day.

hisssssss.....

The Red Cross keeps a snake farm in the middle of Bangkok in order to make antivenom and for education. On Thursday, Maly, Chris, Jessica and I ventured to play with the snakes. We arrived in typical fashion...right on time--if not a few minutes late...and the first snake brought out was a king cobra that stood on its own to 3 feet high before lunging at the snake charmer; the king cobra was followed by several more very venomous snakes and some non-venomous but native to SE Asia. As the show progressed, the speaker spoke about all of the different types of snakes and what would happen to a person if they were to be bitten by one. He used the opportunity to teach what a person should do if they are bitten.