Friday each grade had a different field trip.  I was told to be at the school at 1:30am as I was going on the M3 field trip.  What?  Sure enough, 1:30 am and most of the class and a bunch of teachers were there.  We loaded onto two buses and headed to near Suphan Buri.  I tried to sleep on the bus, but these are not the greatest buses in the world and the roads were horrible.  It was quite difficult to sleep while being tossed around with every bump in the road.  I had no idea where we were going.  Pat isn’t real good at filling me in on stuff.  We stopped for breakfast at a rest stop around 8:00am.  They have a lot of rest stops here, kind of like in America except with a much more elaborate food situation.  Then back on the road.  At some point we passed a zoo and I was excited because I liked the idea of a zoo.  Nope.  We drove a little farther, parked and started walking away from the zoo.  Finally, someone filled me in.  We were going to an aquarium.  It was a pretty decent aquarium.  After that we went to a market that is supposed to be over 100 years old.  It was pretty neat to see.  The old shop fronts lined the streets and the awnings from the shops opened up to touch those across the street, giving it the feel of a typical Thai market, but not as temporary.  It had a lot of different things you could buy, but we’ll call it the fish, sweets and restaurant market.  I assumed after that we’d be heading back to the school since it was such a long drive, but since no one had filled me in, I had no idea.  The next stop was a buffalo park and history museum.  They had old houses and equipment they use to use with the buffalo for farming.  They also had close to 30 buffalo and a buffalo show.  Then we headed home.  The heat had taken it’s toll and I’ve caught a cold.  Add that combo to the fact that I got up at 1:00am and I was hurting.  We stopped at another rest stop for dinner and I found some coconut juice which I think made the difference between just feeling sick and having heat exhaustion.  I love the coconut.  We got back to the school around 10:30pm.  Wow.  Hard core field trippin.

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