Halfway Around the World

I got to go on tour in Thailand and then to Vietnam for 3 weeks with the Ballroom Dance Company and it was amazing! One of the best parts was of course the elephant riding and the elephant show.

These elephants should be named Michelangelo because not only could they paint....but their paintings were thousands of times better than mine!

At some of our shows we would get mobbed by the audience who all wanted to take pictures with us. For the first time in my life I almost felt like a celebrity and I am just a regular person because smiling for that long is exhausting. And this little girl was so cute that I wanted a picture too!

Yep, python!

This is a bodhi which is the tree where Buddha recieved enlightenment. Anyways really sacred tree and really expensive wood comes from this tree. So in order to stop people from cutting them down, people ordain them monks. And it works that little red and yellow thing around the tree means it is an ordained tree!

Attuyawa Temple ruins. I've never sweat more that on this day. 100 degrees in 100 percent humidity equals sweat pouring from my whole body and everyone else's.

This is in a tuk tuk where we got ripped off and driven all over the whole city! Crazy and frustrating at the time but it makes for a good story and we only lost a few bucks.
In Thailand at the Grand Palace. The building was covered in little pieces of glass/reflective stuff and the whole things sparkled in the sun.

Yes I ate all of those things! eek it was scary! Except for this guy...this little fried crab never made it into my mouth...nope nope nope!

Coconut water....don't really like it but it was okay.
This was in the Cuchi tunnels. During the Vietnam war the Vietnamese built tunnels under the ground to hide in. The tunnels were TEENY!