I've been getting my Vitamin C the wrong way...

Now, I'm a big fan of Orange Juice... I like it with some pulp... so good. Until now I thought I'd been living the right way, drinking my Orange Juice... enjoying life, while I was blind to how I should be conducting myself.
Everyday for the past 6 days, I've had Orange Juice in the morning... what's so special about that you might ask... hold on, I'll tell you. For one, it's cheaper than it is in America and secondly and most important, it's freshly sqeezed... and I'm not talking the corny kind... how minute maid says on the side of thier box, "Homestyle" or, "grovestand"... this shit is 100% the real deal, sqeezed after I've ordered it.
Right now, I'm sitting drinking a screwriver with freshly sqeezed OJ... and I've got to tell you, I care to live no other way.
Last night we took a night train up from Bangkok to where we are now, which is Chiang Mai... we're staying at a resort called Ayatana which is outside of the city and it's incredible... once we arrived at the hotel we were greated it with fresh fruit and freshly sqeezed orange juice... [that shit is good]
Our room is amazing... our double door entrance opens up to our sleeping area with the bathroom behind it... the mirror seperates to open up a view between the bed and bath... the shower has a floor to ceiling old style window that opens up to an enclosed balcony with a large vase-like thing that holds hot water to wash your face off in the morning.
The more my I see of this country I really fall more and more in love. The people are very generous... to be honest, in the begining, I thought, quite cynically in fact, that they were being nice to me because they wanted money... [as the US Dollar is worth a lot more than the Thai Baht, not to mention that farangs are seen as very wealthy] but that wasn't true... one of the main ideas in this country is hospitality. Genuine hospitality... being raised in America I've adopted that, "what's in it for me?" type of attitude and that really isn't the case here. It's really something to see.
My thai is coming along, and I thought I was doing alright, until I had a run in at the weekend market [Chatuchak] when I tried to ask a lady how much something was... yeah... completely embarassed myself, but I guess I was redeemed when, yesterday a lady told me that my Thai was very good at MBK [another huge shopping center].
PIcture time:


This is soi phradiphat the road my first hotel was on in Bangkok



We're sitting at a bar, and wouldn't you know it... but an elephant walks up.



My lady outside of wat bang phra after we got some yant tattoos




My yant tattoo done by monks