Chiang Mai 1/31

After breakfast we set out to find the women’s prison. It has shut down but next to it there is a place where the inmates are taught a trade, which is massage therapy. We both signed for a full hour massage. It was great ($6 each). Bo confessed that when she took her bra off the attendant shockingly exclaimed “Wow, beautiful ….” (As most Asian women’s, her own breasts were quite small) After the walk back we decided to spend the afternoon at the pool. At 6 pm we embarked to find an eclectic market across from the university that we read about in the guidebook. It took a long tuk tuk ride, but we found it and it was quite different from the night market. All young people. Many eateries but most Korean and Japanese. We were hungry so we sat down in one of the places. Menu was only in Thai and the waiter didn’t speak English so we went to another one – a Japanese Thai fusion where the waitress spoke some rudimentary English. After we finished our meal and were paying the bill, the waitress patted Bo on the side and said: “Nice body, no fat.” Two complements in one day, it doesn’t get much better than that. We took a red truck back to the night market where Bo bought half a dozen of things.