Thailand and Singapore: a list

I don't really want to bore you with a whole long travelogue of everything I did. Let's just say that the entire trip was amazing...the food, the people, the places we stayed, the shopping, the fresh fruit...oh man I wish I were still on vacation...Here are the highlights:

Chiang Mai:
My favorite things - the resort that we stayed at Baan Nam Ping (check out their website at www.baannamping.com) was so incredibly beautiful. There were only 9 cabins, so the place wasn't very crowded. Every morning the staff prepared a feast of Traditional Thai foods, Japanese foods, and Western style breakfast foods for us...it was so oiishi!!
-The Elephant ride: which was on a 45 year old elephant named Billy, who took my mom and I on an hour long jaunt thru a river and into the jungle.
-Visiting with the Long-neck people...(check out this site for pictures of them...http://www.thailandlife.com/longneck_02.html)
-hour long massages for $6 (that included the tip)
-Fresh Fruit drinks for 30 cents...

Bangkok:
-Wat Pho (the reclining Buddah) which is AWESOME...(in that "it left me speechless way" not the 80s slang way)
-The Imperial Palace which was so beautiful, with all of its intricate jeweled and mosaiced walls...i could have stared for hours.
-Joe Louis Puppet theatre, which is like no other show I have seen before.
-Taking a speed boat thru the backwater canals to the floating market...where ladies in boats hawk fruit and other souvenirs

Singapore (aka my most favorite city in the WORLD)
-The night safari (which is like nothing I have ever seen before)
-the shopping (they have stores from all over the world.....including a Borders (which wouldn't be so cool if not for the fact that I have been so far from civilization for so long)
-The overall mixture of cultures and art just makes this place so cool
-The Botero exhibit at the Singapore Art Museum was outstanding
-the Chinatown Heritage Museum (you would have to see it to understand how cool it is).