Oh hey. I went to Thailand. It was pretty cool and I took some pictures.

So I failed to mention that I went to Thailand a couple weeks ago.  It was alright, I guess.

Just kidding, it was AWESOME, and I highly recommend a trip if you ever have the chance.  The food was great, the shopping was plentiful, and the views were fantastic.  And we went zip lining through a rainforest!  I could bore you with the 3 page itinerary I wrote for the trip, but I'll just post some pictures here instead.  

Yes, this was definitely the first place I ate in Thailand.  Haters gonna hate.  

The first of many temples we visited.  This one had an enormous standing Buddha!

Street food on a stick!  It was just like the Iowa Sate Fair.!

This was my first train ride (that I can remember.  Being a baby doesn't count, Mom) and it was so exciting!  There were bunk beds and a lot of dirty backpackers.  Good times were had by all.  But mostly we just slept.  

My partners in crime, shopping at the night market in Chiang Mai.  There are sooo many different things to buy and so many pretty colors!  

There was a deal with the zip-line tour that you got to stay a free night in a 5 star hotel.  This was definitely worth it!  Here we are chilling at this super awesome pool at our super fancy hotel.  

Some Thai food we were served at our Thai Dinner and Dance cultural outing.  We like to keep it classy.  

This is the dancing portion of the Thai Dinner and Dancing cultural extravaganza (that was definitely not the name of the event, but I really like calling it that)

I'm all ready to go zip lining!  If you've never done it before, I highly recommend it.  We got to zip line for 3 hours and it was so much fun!  Terrifying, but fun. 

Rockstar Jodi heading out on a zip line!  

"Small town girl in a big city" shot.  Bangkok is crazy but it was definitely refreshing to see a big city in Asia with clean streets and functioning traffic.  You're up next, Cambodia!  

As far as things outside of Thailand go, they are pretty great.  I've been keeping really busy at site, and I'm feeling extremely productive (this has been a rare feeling for me this past year).  There will definitely be a separate post on this later, but for those of you who can't wait, I'll just tell you that I finally feel like I've made a difference in some small way.  I know this last year is going to fly by, but I can't wait to make the most out of these last months.  Here's to one more year!