A day of enjoyable bruises, bites and cuts March 28, 2005
Posted by Martin in : Thailand , trackbackI remember, on falling exhausted into bed last night that I wanted the sliding door of our balcony open. Tik warned me that we’d get a lot of mosquitos in the night if we did that, but like man who wants his door open at night, I ignored her words of wisdom.
… so so itchy! We get the female mosquitos here with the high-pitched sound … they zzzzzzzzuzzz all over a room, land on my ear and escape just as I try to slap them. I try to be the gentleman for Tik and let them eat at me until surely they can’t eat any more and will get bored. No such luck.
Tik and I spend the night under the bedsheets, propping it up with my pillow so we are in a self-contained bed-tent. I wake up the following morning surpisingly unaffected.
Today is our big day. We get to do paintball, All-terrain-vehicles, nano-bikes and bowling. We take a swim after breakfast and are informed that a family also wish to do paintballing. We choose to join them.
Paintball was fun. It was in a small sandy area, rather than a large forest. Tik and I fought together against 2 family members. It was something I was looking forward to and I was not left disappointed. THe activity took about 30 minutes.
Next stop was ATV driving. I’d like to say I’m a skilled driver with lightning reflexes and credible judegment. I’d like to say I was an outstandingly healthy rich playboy millionaire too but realistically my ATV skills rank in the lower quadrant, perhaps slightly higher than that of a primate. I had a great time, actually managing to flip the vehicle upside down, and absolubtly caking my white trousers and my body in mud. Tik no longer enthuses about me learning to drive in her car.
I was not so good on the nano-bikes. Tik’s nano-body made her much better suited to ride the things. I had a quick ride but soon gave up in exhaustion after my tiring ATV experience.
We left the resort about 2:30 pm to eat at a famous and delicious steakhouse and cattle farm called Chokchai Farm. We got back to Bangkok about 5pm.
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