Ooh, It's A Holiday!

Yes. My worst fears have been realized. I have started to call vacations "holidays." And toilets, pants, butts, and pees "loos," "trousers," "bums," and "wees," respectively. It's being around all these damn Euros! I love 'em though. They're so cute with their little accents.

Anne and I had a mini-holiday to Hua-Hin recently and it was sooo nice. Can I just say sushi, facials, pedicures, night markets, beach, and really bad but really amusing Asian karaoke cover band? Yes, I think it was a good weekend.

A bunch of people from the center came out on Sunday night for Bex's birthday and we went out for...you guessed it! Pizza! It was again delicious and we savored every tantilizing Italian spice....We had a Western-style cake and everything! None of that sticky rice and egg Thai "dessert." Seriously, who are they kidding with that stuff? Afterwards we went and played pool and had some cocktails. My aim always improves after a few drinks anyway. We played Britain vesus the rest of the world. It was three Brits to four Rest-Of-The-Worlders. And we won! Nothing new I guess. Ha!

Then it was back to work on Monday morning. Oh, the drill. You really only learn by doing here. Today I cleaned otter shit. Ugh, it is possibly the worst smell EVER. The other day I took my jacket off while I was cleaning a cage and a monkey reached through the bars and stole it! I could see it getting monkey slobber all over it while it tried to chew off the zipper. I had to enlist the help of the Thai workers. And this time I said "thank you" the right way. Now my jacket smells like monkey cage. Gross.

I can't believe I have been here two weeks already! It's really flown by. Miss everyone and hope everything is beautiful in the Bay.

I'll let the pictures speak for themselves. We all had a good time during our drunken debauchery and luckily I had my camera 'cause now I have some blackmail material should one of my fellow volunteers ever get on my bad side.

Hehe, just kidding. Everyone knows I don't have a bad side...