Jarrod and Sara’s Site

What’s up everyone? Hope everything is going well back home, thanks for all the emails and posts, please keep them coming.

Sorry we haven’t posted in a little while, but haven’t had much internet time. Things are going great and we got to see a ton of Bangkok in the last few days. We’re trying to upload a few photos now but having a little trouble. They need an Owl Watch IT department over here. Anyway, we spent a week in Bangkok and loved exploring the city. It seemed that everywhere we went there was something interesting to see and do. The last couple of days the big activities were attending a Muay-Thai boxing match. The matches themselves were fun to watch, but also sitting in the “third class” seats behind a fence, we got to watch all the gambling that took place. We have absolutely no idea how it worked. In between each round people shouted frantically and put up various fingers at each other, but no money changed hands and there seemed to be no one in charge. It was hilarious to watch, but we wish we knew what the hell was going on. Also, there were young kids who sold refreshments and beer and they loved coming up and talking to us (as we were the only “westerners” in the third class section). As they got more comfortable they started coming up more often and asking us to pronounce words that they had written down and then laughing hysterically when we said them. It was great. We also got our first thai massages at the Wat Pho massage school. These were intense. When we finished Sara said, “Was it me or was that really painful?”, which it was, but still felt great somehow and afterwards we felt so loose and relaxed.

We are currently in Kanchanaburi, which is about a three hour train ride out near Myanmar border (don’t worry, not too close), the home of the Bridge over the River Kwai. We went to the Thailand-Burma Railway Center today which was a great museum detailing the story of the “Death Railway” which was built to connect Thailand to Burma for the Japanese troops. It was built by thousands of Allied POWs in absolutely horrifying conditions. After the museum we walked down to the actual “Bridge Over River Kwai” made famous by the movie. It was an extremely interesting afternoon and it was great to be able to walk over and explore around the bridge.

Tomorrow we’re going to visit the Erawan National Park an hour outside Kanchanaburi… we’ll keep you posted.

Please keep in touch. Hope everyone’s doing well.

Jarrod and Sara