My new room
View from the balcony
In front of our apartment
My roommate, Rashele
New friends
Three kittens and their mom live here too!
Stretching
Ready position..
I’m so into it
High kick
Muay Thai
We’re a force to be reckoned with
Riding on the songtaow
My friend, RJ
My friend, Kristyn
At the pineapple farm
The Thais build spirit houses so that old spirits have a place to go when they move into a new home
The gang at a pineapple farm
The gang gets goofy
It gets pretty windy on the back of the songtaows
She wanted to help with the educational elephant lecture
We really enjoyed it!
She’s such an attention seeker!
Aaaamazing! She was so friendly
Connor photobombing my picture of the elephants
Elephants!
They have been rescued from humans who mistreated them but can still be dangerous
Feeding the elephants
They loved the pineapple
At the market
Beautiful ladies!
Getting our ingredients for tomorrow’s cooking lesson
We attempted to order in Thai
We’re feeling good after our shot of lao tao(Thai whiskey wine)
Got some snacks for ourselves too
These ladies got food as well….
….and it ended up being so spicy they were all in pain
Cooking class!
Lovely ladies
I got right in there
Adding all the ingredients
The way they showed us to use the pestle and a spoon to mix the ingredients was great!
Delicious papaya salad we made
Mom making pad thai for us
She was a mom to us all at XploreAsia and I was so grateful for her kindness
Catherine and Kristyn
Max is enjoying it and love Melvin in the background!
The beach two minutes from my apartment
Road to the beach
Heading out for the evening
Hopped on a songtaow!
Foot massages with these incredible gals
I wanted to get one everyday
Group shot
The night market
Mussels pancake and pad thai
So much good food
Beautiful Thailand
Walking to the temple right by the ocean
Kaitlin
Lotus statue, there was a Buddha for each day of the week and you could throw a coin in the day you were born for good luck
Looking back towards Hua Hin
From the temple we hiked up the stairs
Better views
Big Buddha
The staaaaairs
I think I caught Max mid-thumbs up pose?
Smile! As I make them look directly into the sun haha
At the top of the mountain
The gang goes to a temple
Visiting another temple and talking with a monk
Trying meditation
The gang meets a monk
After discussing meditation with a monk
At RescuePaws
Dog walks on the beach(yes, I fell in the water:)
Songtaow ride to the beach BBQ
Beach fun
We had a workshop on why we were here and then had to write down what is in the way of our own happiness and throw them in the fire.
These fools left us early since they already had their TESOL
December birthdays!
Love this crew
Funny one!
Driving out into the country
The mountains jut up out of nowhere
Phraya Nakhon Cave Hike
Kaitlin and I
We hiked with Dr. Grant! (aka Max)
The hike was straight up the mountain
Descending into the cave
There’s a person for some scale
The sun started shining right as we got to the cave!
This was a very peaceful place
Those little glowing white spots are spider webs
After the hike we needed a massage and it came with jeweled flip flops!
Oh you know, just doing homework, drinking wine at a rooftop bar overlooking the ocean. A normal Sunday.
Dec. 5 was Father’s Day(the King’s Birthday)
Since he just passed about two months earlier there was a ceremony.
It was beautiful and I feel honored to have been a part of it.
We lit candles and had a moment of silence. I was moved; it was really incredible.
Leelawadee is the Thai name for this flower that is everywhere.
So many beautiful flowers
Getting some dumplings freshly steamed for lunch
First test run teaching
Teaching checkers to my friend Bianca
I tried to play with the kittens with that branch…it kind of worked
Out celebrating birthdays!
Dirty 30!
There was incredible street art in Hua Hin
The most chill monkey ever haha
The boganvila grows like a weed here!
Live band, and that’s Pook who we befriended
Stroke of midnight, my actual birthday.
So much love
Group love
My friend Steph, who is amazing and so fun!
I couldn’t get enough of the kittens
I walked by this passion flower everyday on my walk to class
Lotus, the flower of Thailand
At school for round 2 of teaching
My friend Tessa and I
All the teachers
Selfie time!
So fun
They’re signing my apron because I taught about cooking
So goofy
smile!
silly one!
One of our last nights together
Max wrote a song about us
The ladies!
Love these girls
My friend Kristyn and Emilie
The Boys
Hey little kitten!
Up early for a waterfall hike
Not a lively bunch
It was really early
Waterfall Crew
Genna and Jenna
Jenna and Julie
The jungle was so immense
Rashele
We both took a photo at the same time haha
The root patterns amaze me
This seems to be some kind of hiking superstition but I’m not sure what
so many fish
Fish pedicure, 0 Baht
I loved it! Everyone thought I was crazy
Tessa admiring the waterfall
Bianca
I’m coaxing everyone into the water
The water was so strong
Jenna and I chilling on a rock
You had to fight to stay under the waterfall
Jenna, the butterfly whisperer
The butterflies were everywhere
Butterflies!
National Park sign
My friend, Nik, doing this amazing mural
Last night for some of us
Fish pedicure!
It tickled, and also felt so weird!
My feet felt nice afterwards
Beach at night
Full moon
Thai BBQ
So many meats!
Pook and Eve and their cocktail masterpiece
Nik standing to take a sip
Last meal in Hua Hin and a work of art
Steph and I getting burritos in Bangkok before I left for Sisaket
The Voyager 