White water rafting

On my last Saturday in Thailand I had trouble choosing what I was going to do. I thought about visiting Doi Inthanon (the highest point in Thailand and how of the Royal Project) but couldn't figure out an easy way to get there and still have the independence to see the stuff I wanted. I was very tempted to go to the pool and lay out for the day as a break from the business of the past couple weeks but that seemed to boring and very un-Thai. So Joy convinced me to go white water rafting. I have been before in West Virginia so I wasn't very nervous. I was a bit surprised that the raft guides were much more conservative than the ones I had in the US. We never paddled through the rapids, just sat on the side or on the slightly bigger ones the instructed us to sit in the bottom of the raft. Also they had rescue crews on the shore at all of the big rapids and our boats had to line up and take turns going through the big stuff. Overall it was really fun though. We met some cool American girls who were living internationally for a year. One of them was living in Israel and completing an internship related to child development and the other girl was teaching English in Malaysia. They were both at their half way points and were traveling for vacation in Thailand. It was fun to compare stories about living abroad and crave western foods.