Here's the Thailand I'm Loving

[Me and Zoe holding Rambutan]

We stopped by our favorite fruit vendor at the market and got hooked up with some free fruit. Apparently there's a different species of orange here that I'm excited to try tomorrow morning. She also taught me some more Thai which is one of my favorite parts; "Mango-stee" and "Long-kong" are some of the sweetest fruits we got to try today!

We also went to Phichit's infamous ice-cream shop, Swenson's. Apparently it's a wanna be 'American ice cream shoppe', because they include all the English names and play American music. The ice cream was a little sweeter than home, but that made it all the more delicious. It was nice to have a little piece of home nearby. 

[Zoe and Abbey]

We all tried each others since there were about 7 pages of different ice creams and sundaes. So good!

[Me going for the kill]

They have these beautiful lei's in the market everywhere, hand-made right in front of us! They also made arrangements out of leaves and pins, such a unique design and neat creation!

One of the many mystery market buckets that contain unknown Thai goodies. These badboys were still alive and squggling out my hands, weirdest feeling ever. Luckily, most of the vendors here are excited for us to learn about the foods here so they encouraged us to touch and grab them and we pretended to slurp them up like noodles.

[Me freaking out over the eels.....snakes....? at the market today]

Ok this isn't the best picture of my co-teachers, but it was next to our FAVORITE VENDOR OF ALL TIME!!!.....the fruit shake stand! They juice the whole fruit right in front of us and then add ice for a smoothie-consistency if you want it. I've gotten both the juice (which is in a bag with a straw by the way, so funny) and the fruit shake and it's so amazingly delicious. "No suga!" as they would say, because all the other fruit shake vendors add syrups for the fruit taste while they use REAL fruit.