Thanksgiving in Thailand

We celebrated our turkey day a little different this year. We started out renting a motorbike and cruised around the island of Ko Lanta looking for a elephant trek that would take us to a cave in the hills. Once we learned that the elephant trek was a little out of our budget we decided to head to another cave on the island that you could spelunk in. This was a very interesting experience since it involved crawling through a hole not much bigger than myself (good thing I lost some lbs. in Nepal). I even had to pass the backpack through to Katie to fit. The cave itself was very warm and humid, provoking my sweat glans into overdrive. There was a spring in the cave that was advertised as good for swimming. This I thought would be a great relief from the hot temperature in the cave. Upon arrival I found a hole no-bigger than a horse trough filled with a green murky water. Valuing my life and fear of disease I optioned out of the swimming portion, as did everyone in the group, even our high guides!!! Apparently grass is good for the caving experience.

Once we made it to daylight we went searching for a restaurant that was supposed to have a "Thanksgiving Dinner". We should have known better being in Thailand, Thanksgiving is not that popular of a holiday. We did find a wonderful restaurant called "The Red Snapper" and it provided a menu that was suitable for two hungry travelers mourning for a holiday meal. Instead of Turkey we had beef tenderloin and pork steak, and a myriad of appetisers that we tried to mimic as the ones all of you were probably enjoying. We just did it without the football on T.V. (to my disappointment). This years thanksgiving was great and I could not have imagined a better meal, with the exception of having all of you present!!!