Layered Lemon Pie: *What you doin'?*

*Nothin', chillin' at the Holidae Inn* --Chingy, Snoopy Dogg, Ludacris

After we finished sightseeing in Sukhothai, we loaded up in the vans and headed out to Ayutthaya which is about ten hours from Chiang Mai (about an hour north of Bangkok). We got in pretty late...somewhere between 7 and 8 p.m. We stayed at this hotel. It was pretty nice. Warm shower. A/C. Cable TV--and I watched Michael Jackson music videos and told Chelsea every five minutes that Michael Jackson had died.

When Chelsea went downstairs to check her email and read Chase's letter a hundred times to memorize it and repeat to herself so she could fall asleep...well, I was gettin' out of the shower...and our door only had a stick to put through the two door handles to "lock" the door. So I did that...and then this guy tried to come up in my room. He was jerkin' it pretty hard and it almost flew open all the way. But I went and opened it...thinkin' maybe it was room service or somethin'. No! It was some crackhead dude tryin' to come up in our room to do I don't know what! And then he had the audacity to yell at me and tell me to "Lock your room!" What? Nigga no! You don't try to come up into rooms that ain't your's! How about that?!?! I'd like to go off. Tryin' to come up in here and steal somethin' or rape somebody. Oh heck nah. It ain't goin' down like that. He didn't know. Michael Jackson just died and I was devastated...then here came this fool tryin' to break into my room! (I hope Kimi reads this and she can laugh the whole time 'cause she can here my accent when I get "intense" as she calls me!)

Anyhow, I liked bein' roommates with Chelsea because she didn't try to freeze me out of house and home. We also had some extra travelers with us for the end of June/beginning of July. There was an ex-student from one of Ralph's classes, Hella. She's a grown up and she's Danish. Anyhow, she always wanted to go on the study abroad...but it was always inconvenient or too long or too much money, etc. So she decided to come out for only three weeks (the rest of us were there for three months). Then there was a group of kids who were interns two years ago...well, at least two of them were: Annie and McKenzie. McKenzie got married--so her husband, Lad, and little sister, Jessica, tagged along. They were fun. Chelsea and I rode in their van all over south Thailand.

I'm in a towel. haha. That's what I get for takin' a picture in front of the mirror!

The bathroom door was made of glass...so you could see through it. Chelsea was usin' the facilities and I wanted to get a picture of her...but I was too slow.

The next mornin' we hit up the market for breakfast. The market is #1-cheaper than any restaurant and #2-yummier because you can pick every little thing that you want instead of some jumbo meal that already comes together. So if I want a fried egg, some coconut pancakes, and mangos with sticky rice...then that's my choice.