More elephants and stuff

The next day in Chiang Mai was Jessica's 29th birthday (my friends are SO old!) and we spent it drinking beers on top of elephants, hiking and white water rafting. Which was really more like wavy water sitting, as we pretty much did nothing while our guides paddled through the semi wavy water. As a group of 4 girls we were prime targets and our boats were often flipped over. According to them, if it's not wet it's not fun. They were hysterical and while it wasn't quite white water rafting, it was a blast. We then shopped for awhile at the night market and the found our way to watch some muay thai boxing. We were the only, um, "respectable" women there. We spent most of our time taking pictures of the inappropriateness surrounding us and then laughing to ourselves. We don't think that we were appreciated, but we had a good time and Jessica had a memorable 29th birthday.

jess and I having birthday drinks on top of our elephant

the view while elephant riding

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just some more pretty stuff we saw while hiking

us with our white water rafting guides