Finished in Chiang Mai

Anita just finished her 5 week massage course, and we are off to Pai now.

The cool things I did in Chiang Mai:

- Lit some latern baloons. These light paper lanterns capture the hot gases from the candle until they are bouyent enough to take off into the sky. It looks very cool to see something take flight from only hot air, and I have never seen it on such a small scale before. Once it takes off, it looks quite nice as it rises into the night sky, an orange dot against the blue black. There will be a festival where hundreds of them are released in a few days, so that will be good to check out.

- Finally finished a demo for my RPG book, Plutocracy 2060. It ended up being 203 pages long. I printed out 10 copies, and am looking into some E-publishing. Now it's on to the truly massive amount of spelling and grammar mistakes.

- Went to a fish spa. Garra rufa is a tiny fish species that eats away at the dead skin on your body. So, a fish spa is a place where you put your legs (or your whole body) into a pool filled with the little suckers and they immediately begin to nibble away all your detritis. It's extremely bizarre seeing scores of these things surrounding your legs, giving you an extremely intense tickling feeling. Anita and I sat there laughing for about 15 minutes until we got used to it for the last 30 mintues. Pretty cool experiance.

- Went to an herbal steam bath. Very hot, hard to breath, and somewhat uncomfortable. Felt nice and clean when I was done though.

Thats about all the touristy things we have done there, since Anita wanted to rest on the weekends and I was more than happy to plug away at my RPG. Now, its back to backpacking for a while.