I did, however, finally go to the Night Bazaar, which was overpriced and crowed but I did get my elephant ring and a super cute shirt. I looked for gifts for everyone who helped me out with Lola, but didn't find anything. I came up with some ideas, though.
At dinner our waiter messed up almost everything and Melissa had to have a stern talking to the bartender, who was the only person who spoke enough English to explain the food situation to. Then, we were completely unable to get a taxi, well we could but they were all treating us like a bunch who tourists who didn't know any better.
There are these red taxis, which I may or may not have mentioned before. They sorta look like trucks that would take you to your day labor job and they're supposed to cost a 20 baht flat rate. We much have spoken to at least six different taxis who asked us how much we wanted to pay and when we said 'you're a red taxi. you cost 20 baht' they all tried to get more, so we just kept walking. Thankfully we eventually found one who would accept his proper fare.
We did get to see two baby street elephants. It took a lot of will power for me not to touch them or give their owners money to feed them. These guys walk the babies around the old city with bags of sugar cane and you can give them money to feed the elephant. The only problem is that elephants need more than sugar cane to live, and that when they get older these guys don't want them anymore and then they need to be rescued. They're not treated very well and are probably pretty unhappy. But man, did I want to touch them.
I missed Nui today, which is so silly because I was only with her for about 8 hours and she did lead a stampede while I was on her back. But I still miss her. Man. I'm turning into a crazy elephant lady.
I never wrote about Friday, when a couple of notable things happened.
It was Gina and Tom's last night in town (frown) and I met them for dinner. Gina had spent the previous day with Pichette the previous day and I was interested in hearing what she learned. Pichette is a man who lives outside of Chiang Mai who is kind of a Thai massage guru. He's almost legend here with the massage students and they go to great lengths to see him. He teaches his students to be more intuitive and to use their bodies properly. I'm really interested in coming back and studying with him, as it will be completely different from TMC's incredibly structured program.
Gina introduced me to some people whom she met there, including Paul Fowler and Paul Weitz, who own Chicago School of Thai Massage. The Pauls and I talked a little bit about their school and studying with Pichette and it definitely gave me ideas about what I want to do in the future. Their program is 162 hours, but I'm not sure how much would overlap with what I've learned so I'll probably take a weekend course and then do further study with Pichette.
Gina, Tom and I went to Zoe in Yellow, which I had read about in Bess' blog. It was actually a really nice place, very chill. We talked with the owner for a bit. I feel like you never do that in the states, just hang out with the owners (unless it's Gold Star)
The owner of Zoe in Yellow, Gina, Me
This was not the main event for the evening. That would come at Lavender Hotel where me, Bindya, Alfredo and Georianna saw the dirtiest ladyboy show...
There was no cover, just a one drink minimum. The drinks cost 200-250 baht, which is pretty pricey for here but getting into a show would normally be double that.
We were seated near the back, probably because we were not looking to purchase any of the merchandise. There were eight shirtless boys swaying on stage when we got there. Most of them looked incredibly bored, they all looked young. Each of them had a number hanging from their belt buckle so that if someone wanted to take them home, it would be easier to place their order.
The lady boys themselves were pretty impressive. One of them was so pretty that we actually asked out waiter if everyone performing was a ladyboy, that they didn't sneak a girl in there. He insisted that they were all boys. Amazing!
The performances were mostly pretty great. There were a couple where the ladyboy wore huge gowns and sang a slow song that were really just boring.
That is not the interesting part. There were about three "acts" in there that had nothing to do with lady boys. It was a basically a live, gay sex show. The first one was relatively tame. There was some touching but not actual sex acts were performed. The next, I think there was some oral in there. But the last one...man....really anything you could think of was happening up there. We were all pretty shocked and wished it would end sooner. I mean, we sorta expected it. We had heard that this one was pretty raunchy but I don't think any of us were prepared.
our intro
impressive dancer
she was the prettiest
all of our ladyboys
our ladyboy show group after the show
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