Being in Pai is a lot more chill than being in a bigger city. Within a few hours, we knew all the street names and had no problem getting around. Taxis and tuktuks are unnecessary in such a small town. Yesterday, our full day here, we had a very relaxing morning. Melissa and our Norwegian friend Maria did yoga in the morning, and I walked around town. I bought a nice black skirt and some ponchos to protects us from the rain (we keep getting soaked everywhere- very refreshing, but our clothes smell bad and take for forever to dry in this humid weather). We met up afterwards, rented scooters, and did a nice easy drive through the countryside, visiting a watt (temple) and a cute Chinese village where we had tea, dried fruit, and talked with a nice Irish traveler until the rain subsided and we could keep driving. That night, we went out to an amazing restaurant where we tried: pork and green eggplant salad, banana flower salad with chicken and shrimp, steamed fish curry pudding, and shan pudding for dessert (a custardy coconut thing). Everything was phenomenal- our favorite meal so far. I loved it so much that after our drive around this morning (which was really beautiful- gorgeous, extremely lush rainforest terrain with clouds coming down on the mountains around) I went back and got some crabs in coconut milk to go. I'll eat it on our bus on the way to Chiang Mai (in 5 minutes!)
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