Climbing in Thailand

Well, Daniel, Rebekah, Mister Danny, Nok, and I went to the Racquet Club, where they have a pool, weight room, and a climbing wall.  It cost us 500 baht each, for the day, which is kinda expensive.

Daniel and Rebekah are two teachers at EIS, who previously got married on before coming to Thailand.  Daniel teaches High School Math, and Rebekah is a 7th Grade teacher.  They are both high energy people and fun.

Mister Danny is a High School teacher, this year he has been working as the Administrator for Curriculum.  Very fun guy and always willing to go try and climb a wall with us young guys!

And then Nok and Me, well this was Nok's second time trying to climb, and she did fantastic.  She climbing all the way to the top three times and did the hard rock surface climb.  I think we may pick up top roping as a hobby.

Anyways, this was a great day and really enjoy climbing.  This place is to expensive, so we usually go climb at the National Stadium, where it is free.  The only thing is it is harder and higher.

March 14 Trip to Muak Lek

Two weekends ago, Nok, her Dad and I decided that we would spend the weekend relaxing as a family.. haha.. at there home in Muak Lek.  Then plans got changed a little, we had to go down to Pataya for a meeting with Nok's Dad and a church plant there.  So we spent one night there in Pataya, then drove 4 hours North to Muak Lek to relax for a Day... that is when I took these pictures.  It was early Sunday morning, and sunny.

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Trip to the South (Part 1)

My long awaited tale of our trip to Ban Krut. Well, it was very nice. Like I said before, we planned on having 6 or 8 people, and so I called around to get a few more people, to try and save us money, and then we end up with 16 people on this trip. It was great and I really enjoyed getting to know the guys but I am more of a small group kind of guy.

So we traveled by Train:

We then arrived at Ban Krut after a long ride, playing games, talking and wondering if we would ever get there. I think we arrived around 12 or 1 in the morning after leaving around 3:30 pm.  When we go there we had to take a ride in the back of a truck to the hotel. It was nice to get to the place and relax and then go to sleep.

In the morning we got to see the place:

(Top: Hotel; Middle Left: Cafeteria; Middle Right: Beach; Bottom: Beach)

We stayed in the hotel pictured above and then every morning would walk down to the cafeteria for breakfast.  You could see the beach and the ocean from the cafeteria, something like the picture bottom.  Not in the picture is a road that separated the beach from the cafeteria.

The next day we took a motorbike trip with eight motorbikes, we looked like a bike gang as we traveled the roads.  I don't have any pictures from that but I do have some video, I still have to get it from Nok, so I will update that when I get a chance.

But here are some pictures from the hike we took at the waterfall:

To be continued...

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