Toads, Rats, Shopping, Food

I spent the day walking. Well, first I had an aruyvedic spa treatment where the physician told me that I was VERY stressed (this after three weeks of vacation) and that I needed to laugh and cry more. I will work on that.

But after the treatment (which included limo service in the Jazz (Thai version of Honda FIT), I set out walking. I wish I'd clocked the miles. Can I count the number of tuk tuk drivers who asked if I needed a ride? Anyhow, I wandered and wandered and did at least 5 miles if not more, all in my flip flops.

This is what I saw:

a beautiful, friendly, screw-tailed Thai cat. Can I take it home to replace the hostile felines in my own home?

Cigarettes with pictures of deformities caused by tobacco on their covers.

A Wat embedded in a neighborhood. It's so complicated, the religious life and the secular. Reminds me of Italy with all the churches...



but what of the frogs and rats?

Yesterday I went to the "Sunday Walking SStreet." Thoustands of vendors. On the way, a rat crossed my path. It was not alarming, more amusing. And on the way home, I collided with a toad. My foot touched it as I walked, I screamed a little, and we both realized our mistake and moved on.