SCOOT-OGRAPHY, FOOD AND RANDOM SHOTS

This post is dedicated to photographs taken while riding our scooter around town and of our favorite food dishes as well as some random shots taken that we find amusing. As we have said before our main form of transportation is a two person scooter. It costs us about 120 baht to fill up (4 dollars) and last us 4 days or so. I have a blue helmet (This helmet was mine by default because my big head does not fit in the other) and Drew has a white and pink helmet with butterflies and flowers. With that being said, here are some photos with descriptions.

This is a picture of an elephant crossing which is quite common here but we never see back home. You can also get a glimpse of Drew's amazing helmet.

This is a photo of a "gas station." The gas comes in old alcohol bottles and is 40 baht per liter.

Here is another view of the gas station.

An elephant getting ready to cross.

And another, as I said, seeing elephants is quite common.

The lights we wait for with a count down timer on when to go. This makes it more dangerous because people try to make lights and also start early.

This is a picture while zooming up a hill and is our typical view as scoot around. Sure beats the 405 or I25 in Colorado.

Our favorite restaurant called the Pad Thai shop (there is no sign though) and it costs us 3.30 cents to eat here with drinks and that is for both of us not per person. We eat here about 5 days a week.

Pad Thai from the Pad Thai Shop. They make it and then give you a plate of different vegetables and a cart with sugar, peanuts and spices to make it to your liking or just eat it as it is. It is customary to squeeze some lime and sprinkle sugar on top.

Tom yum goong soup which is coconut based and has a great flavor. The downside is there are millions of things in it we hate to eat that are the texture of tree bark and whole chunks of ginger. Locals eat everything, we have to pick it all out.

Papaya Salad. This is incredible and spicy and its served with peanuts. We had to ask where the papaya was and it is actually a baby papaya before it is formed that kind of looks like cabbage when shredded.

This is probably our favorite dish when we find it and it is Massaman Curry. We frequent a place in Kata Beach called the Red Chair to get it. We pour this over white rice just as we do with all of our curries.

This is me preparing for my role in the Avatar sequel. Actually this one is amusing because we put our camera on a setting to change anything orange into the color blue. Well I am so tan it turned me into an Avatar character. Whoops.

An awesome sunset with black clouds.

Look closely at this photo and you will see about a 5 foot iguana. Just a typical day at the beach. He was sunbathing just like us.

These bars are all around town and are made in an old VW bus. That is our friend Jay from Canada hanging out with the bartender.

So tomorrow our friend Emily arrives from Amsterdam and we could not be more excited. I will see if I can get her to do a guest blog post. Oh one more thing we were planning on skipping Thanksgiving while here because Turkey is not very common and we figured if we went to a hotel we would just be disappointed but some ex pats that live here invited us to an American owned restaurant that they have been going to in the south of the island for years and we were not disappointed with our food. We had all of the fix ins and it definitely did the trick though it was not the same as home cooked Thanksgiving with friends and family but it was good to get to celebrate Drew's favorite holiday. We only consumed about 1/3 of the calories we normally would on Thanksgiving which means we will just have to eat that much more next year. Alright Happy Thanksgiving all!!!