August 2nd

This morning was a nice lazy morning.  We woke up bright and early because we went to bed early lat night good and exhausted from a long day. It was nice that we didn't have to rush off anywhere.  Zenna especially likes to go to breakfast at our hotel because they have toast.  She is such a picky eater and has been having trouble finding things that she will try so at breakfast she knows she can rely on the toast.  This morning she ate 11 pieces of toast/bread.  Every morning they serve a buffet of Thai food along with bread, butter and jam.  This is usually her biggest meal of the day.  At lunch and dinner she has a couple of bites of rice and just pushes the rest around on her plate.  We did find some apples at a market a couple of days ago so those are also helping to keep her going.

After breakfast Kara picked us up to go to The Puzzle Box  We saw where the locals can go to do art projects.  Today they were working on ceramics.  I heard that they also have some forging equipment but it was not opened today. We did buy several ceramic pendants that the artists there had made.

We stopped along the way to buy some interesting fruit at the market and some sticky rice wraps so that we could have a picnic later.

Then we were on to the Gibbon Sanctuary.  I was especially excited by this since I have had an affinity for all things monkey like since I was a kid.  We brought some ripe bananas and grapes and got to feed them.

And then to my delight we got to hold this beautiful little guy named Albert.  He was only 7 months old and wearing a diaper.  He still lives in the house and sleeps with his human at night and will do this until he is old enough to go with the others.  The amazing woman we met who runs the sanctuary loves these guys like they are her children.  If I ever come back to Thailand I will be volunteering here!!

Next we went to a waterfall.  Sadly since it is the rainy season we could not go all the way to the top because they close the entrance when it's too wet.
It was a beautiful spot and we had a picnic next to the water.

This sticky rice had shredded pork or chicken and came wrapped in tied into this beautiful green banana leaf.