thai animals

this morning brandy and i went to the wat pho temple in bangkok, where we saw a thai man feed an entire bunch of bananas to turtles in a pond. he was especially trying to coax out an especially large turtle. from its head, i would guess the turtle was small-table-sized. we petted an orange temple cat, and a thai man put a very heavy boa constrictor on my shoulders for good luck. we are now in chiang mai, investigating our elephant-riding options, sitting on a porch in nice weather, next to a small fountain, getting bitten on the feet by rabid mosquitoes, and patiently awaiting dinnertime.