We made it safely to Chiang Mai. We have the rest of the day to recover from jet-lag and get settled into our hotel rooms. The weather here is amazing. Sunny and 85 degrees. We are staying at the Chiang Mai Plaza hotel and it is beautiful. There is a nice pool and the food is amazing. The fruit is delicious, (the sweetest most delicious pineapple I have ever tasted), and it is our first opportunity to taste some traditional Thai dishes.
Tonight we are going to visit the night market. What a blast! You can buy just about anything you can imagine and everything is bartered. We are also having dinner out at a very nice traditional Thai restaurant. They will have beautiful Thai dance and live Thai music.
What an incredible group of teens we have on this trip. Some of the most high functioning, intelligent, spiritual beings on the planet! They are really soaking in the amazing spiritual energy of the Buddhist culture here. It's an energy that you can feel as soon as you step off the plane. Every one here consistently embraces you with a warm smile. What a way to interact with another human. What if this was the way everyone greeted each other? It would be hard to judge, hard to get frustrated or impatient, hard to not see the beauty in everyone. This is how it is in Thailand. It is the Buddhist way.
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