Crocodile Farm

      Since originally Lop Buri was planned to be a weekend trip and there wasn't much to do when we got there we headed back to bkk the same night and I read about a crocodile farm that was near by when I got back so the next morning which was a Monday we had off for a Buddhist holiday I headed to Farm Joh Rai Kay (Crocodile Farm in Thai). We took a local air conditioned bus that was 24 baht (80 cents) for about an hour and a half and then hopped in a 8 baht taxi to get to the front door of the farm. The farm is located in Samut Prakan which is southeast of Bangkok and it is the largest crocodile farm in the world housing more than 100,000 crocodiles or so they say. There were crocodile shows, elephant shows, and an array of different animals there. So besides the crocodile part of the farm the rest was a pretty bad zoo. They also sold all kinds of crocodile products there meat, jewelery, leather handbags and wallets they found a way to use every part of a croc for profit. Being the biggest farm in the world they export the crocodiles all around the world as well as leather goods. It was definitely worth a visit because it was so close but I probably would not recommend this place to anyone unless they really enjoy seeing thousands of crocodiles just laying around. 

I played with this monkey for a while, he was like a little baby

USA VS. Canada

     Since we got back early from Lop Buri there was no time for sleep since 3 hours later was the US vs. Canada olypic hockey game for the gold. About 8 of us headed over to Khao San Rd. (the backpacker street in Bkk) at 3 am so we would be there for the 3:30 am start of the game. There were only 2 americans in the entire pub another exchange student and myself. And it was funny to hear a Canadian guys explanation as to why there weren't more americans he said "how would Americans be here in Bangkok, Americans don't travel." The more that I think about it the guy was right since I have been in Thailand I have ran into people from all around the world but usually the only Americans I run into are other exchnage students or people visiting the exchange students or the occasional ones on trips to different islands. It is kind of sad to see how people from other countries take months off at a time to travel the world to see what is out there and how Americans just stay in America because they are content with their surroundings and would never think of traveling around a country like Thailand. Anyways back to the Olympics as most of you know the match did not end in favor of the US and going to watch the match jsut to see how crazy the Canadians got after they won in overtime made the all-nighter worth it. Except for the fact that I got back aroudn 6:30 am and saw the sunrise after spending the entire day in Lop Buri and would be going to the crocodile farm after a little nap.