1 Night in Sukothai

I flew to Sukothai yesterday afternoon for the wedding of my longtime friends Boom and Olaf. We went to her aunt's house first for the ceremony, which happened to be my first Thai wedding.

They kneel on a table and rest there arms on some pillows and everyone crawls by and everyone pours water over there hands and then ties a string around both of there right wrists. After this you drop an envelope of cash into another tray after you pass by them. There is a tray of food offerings next to them which happened to include the face of a pig. Obviously, I didn't dig that so much. Its eyes were open a little bit.

After everybody ties the strings and hands over some cash, some elder guy chanted and sang and stuff. And then I guess they were offically married. Lots of pictures. It was a long time to be sitting on my legs.

After that came whiskey and socializing. I sat at the Thai table and had to go through the usual language-monkey routine until they would talk to me like a normal person. Eventually, I won most of them over so it was decent enough.

Later we went to a resort for the dinner party. There was one really attractive girl so I made sure to sit at her table. This turned out to be a brilliant move on my part.

Someone made the mistake of pointing out that I am capable of karaoke in Thai (it might of been me) so I was forced to go on stage and 'perform'. It went fairly well I think, considering I was fairly drunk. It certainly won over the girl at the table. She had to go to Bangkok for 4 days for work and she asked me to go with her. I had to decline due to the fact that I'm poor and have too much homework at the moment. Ugh. So, unfortunately she had to run off to wake up super-early so she could drive to Bangkok. I think she will likely come to see me in Chiang Mai next month.

After the dinner jam, about 12 of the survivors, including the bride and groom went to some karaoke joint called Kitty World or something. It was inundated with Hello Kitty paraphernalia. I found myself doing most of the singing. At some point, some guy sat down with us and turned off the tv and played guitar for us. It was pretty fun.