I know it has been a while...

So I haven't posted in forever but the quick highlights are such. We met Ketut Liyer, the medicine man from Eat Pray Love, and he read our palms told us our fortunes and just talked to us for a while. I have a picture with him too and his business card so if anyone wants to come visit him in Ubud I have his address. We got to see the North of Bali while we were there and the rice terraces were beautiful. From Bali we had two pretty bad days of traveling until we finally arrived at Railay Beach where we relaxed most of the time but also did some rock climbing. It was really intense but definitely worth it. Catherine and I have like a billion pictures of that also. The next day I decided to hike to this lagoon that was in the center of the island surrounded by all these cliffs. The guy who had been our coach in rock climbing told us to go so I thought it couldn't be that bad of a hike, but boy was I wrong. I was basically free rock climbing for most of the hike and it didn't help that it had just rained so it was really muddy (red mud) and when I finally got to a flat part of the trail, I BIT IT. I came back COMPLETELY covered in red mud and Catherine just looked at me and said "Oh my gosh I'm so glad I didn't go." Overall it was a pretty funny hike.

From Railay we came to Chiang Mai. The first day we went to Wat Doi Suthep, a temple where they claim some of the remains of Buddha are kept. The temple was amazing and we were blessed by a monk, even though we have no idea what he said... Yesterday we did an elephant trek through the jungle and got to meet some of the mountain people, see another waterfall, walk through rice terraces, and then take a bamboo raft down the river. We had no idea that we were going to get soaking wet so at the end we had to buy some new clothes and let me tell you, you are going to be JEALOUS of the purple shorts I got. I think were just going to do the last bit of our shopping today and then start our long journey home tomorrow. Can't wait to see everyone!