snakes and temple

well i am up again not quite as late as yesterday but it really doesnt matter since the sun is already up. i think back to what we did yesterday and it was very slow to startout with really. by the time we were up and moving it was too late in the day to go into town. we were sure it would take longer to get back than we had time for. so we waited around the aparment for Lek. she arrived at noon Mr.chelumchai her husband decided to come to or he didnt want his wife to drive his Bmw. i havent figured out which yet. we got into the car and they took us to lunch. when you are eatign with Lek it always means she will order about 5 plates of food too many. and while i am full i continue to eat because she has a smile on her face while she piles food on my plate. we ate at a barbeque chicken type place but this was definitely not the same as american barbeque. they cook the chickens whole over a fire. so as you walk up there are many chickens over several different fires. from there you get a table and they bring you the chickens. before you get the chicken however it has been cut up into pieces. now mind you these are the chickens that are pretty much free range around here, so they dont exactly have a great amount of meat on them. but we ate and ate and then ate more. and then they got us dessert which was good and if i wasnt so full i wouldve finished it. the dessert was coconut milk in a bowl and in the milk were pieces of ice along with what looked to be tadpoles. the tadpoles were green.... well tadpole shaped gelly type things that were colored green. they are made out of rice. it was very good especially the coconut milk which they add sugar to. after we were don eating we kinda slowly made our way to the car and took an hour long drive or so to the traditional snake village.
the village we visited is home of this which you may or may not find interesting.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,218502,00.html

im not sure if that link will work when i post this but if not just copy it and paste it into the navigation box. but when we arrived at the village the show had already begun. when we got there it was still in the early stages of teh show where the girls just dance witht the snakes which really wasnt all that exciting. after that they got out one of the king cobras and a man came us on stage and began to what i can only describe as pissing it off and then pretending like he was a boxer and boxing the snake when it stood up in the air. we was very close to being bitten many times. the show repeated like this for a number of minutes where they would bring out a snake. mind you all of these snakes were at least 4-5 ft long. but they would bring out a snake and aman would step up on stage. he would then bow. and they would ring a bell like a boxing or wrestling match. now i was sittign there thinking it couldnt get any worse...... but of course i was wrong the last 3 matches were kids..... all under 12. yeah it was absolutely amazing. one of them was bitten hut he was a new guy and didnt have a poisonous snake anyway. but i mean it was amazing. after the show was over i got a picture with a big ole python. no cobras in the audience which is no fun. then around back of the stage are all of the snake cages and we got to see all of the other snakes that werent used in the show. and it was all the same for the most part up until we got to the last cage which was a python that had to have been as big around as my head. it was at curled up but from the look of it it had to have been at least 15-20 ft long. the village had a small what we would call zoo with some monkeys and just a few more snakes. i will finish this post and the next when i return we are goign into town.