February 24th / 25th

For dinner, Gulf ( trainee pilot) wanted to cook a chicken the old traditional Thai way. A chicken is skewered onto a stick, a Tin container is placed over it, and straw is set alight around the tin. Chicken is cooked in 10 minuted! Hard to believe but we tried it anyway.
Not sure where the tin came from, or what was in it before!
Covered with straw and set alight, we waited approx 10 mins.
We were impressed with the chicken, until we cut into it and it was still raw!!!, We tried the whole process again, and it still didn't cook. We ended up cutting the chicken and cooking it in the toaster oven. So much for traditional cooking ways, he obviously got something wrong. It was entertaining though.

The next morning, we took the Governor up for a ride. He turned up wearing the traditional pink color of the king. The red shirts and the yellow shirts are now opposing political parties, so the king has officially chosen pink as the royal color. Most officials will now wear the pink shirt.
The governor taking off, giving us the peace sign.
Derek flying over our resort. ( Old resort )
As we were chasing Derek, saw this "crib" attached to a motobike. "Crib " was complete with baby and toys in it!!!! Driver has a helmet, baby isn't even strapped in, he's just sitting playing with his toys!!!!
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Governor took us out for breakfast. Rice, Duck, Pork and Spicy soup. Hopefully, if Terapat decides to open a business here, we'll have the Governors support.
Next Day, we decided to fly from our new resort. You can see our tent in the background.

Quite a few people came out to see the balloon. We're in the town, so more people are passing by and watching the balloon.
Crossing the Pai river towards our tent. We took up more managers of our resort as a Thank You for putting us up for 2 days.



Perfect flight, Derek managed to fly over the town getting lots of attention, then land back at the resort! Afterwards we had breakfast at the resort. Beautiful views leading to the river.
Western breakfast again, with all this eating we're getting a little podgy!!bv
To celebrate our last flight in Pai, we had a beer in the Jaccuzi in our tent!! Sorry kids, we thought the picture came out cute and had to put it in the blog!!!! We did examine it very carefully first!!!
Next morning, we both had massages. Derek had a Traditional Thai massage ( ouch), while I opted for a soothing oil massage. Very relaxing! Not bad at $4- an hour.
Last passenger, was the owner of this resort. He invited us to dinner at his resort. It's about 12 km out of town, so it was lovely and quite. Great place, with Koi in the pond, rabbits, geese and deer. We just missed getting an elephant ride down the river. If we wanted to come back in the morning, we could get a ride, but we're catching the bus back to Chiang Mai tomorrow.
The resort has concrete cabins on one site, and traditional cabins on the other side. Very peaceful place.

Dinner by the river. Great Traditional Thai food. Paenang curry, baked fish, veg in sauce, hot spicy soup, green leafy veg ( not sure what it is, but tastes good)and omelette. ( which seems to be served with most meals). Spent our last night in our luxury tent. What a way to live!!!