Long awaited update

Well our time in Thailand is up. We've done a hell of a lot.

Haggled in the markets, wandered in Chinatown, trekked through the jungle, been the the BEST CINEMA EVER, gone extreme rainforest caving, canoed across the most beautiful lake, ridden elephants in the jungle, played with the best puppy, swum in best sea cove, accidentally stayed in a 4* hotel, bamboo rafted in the mountain rivers, met the hill tribes, got some very dodgy tummys, stayed in a treehouse in the middle of a rainforest and more.

But now I think I've just had the greatest adventure of all:

I got a haircut.

It was all going so well, I had unruly hair and they had cheap prices. So I had it washed first by a gangly Thai boy, who shampooed twice, then conditioned then gave a massage. Not too shabby. Then I had to pick a style out of a book. So I chose a nice conservative western-style cut. Effectively a short back and sides. However, the man (who had one massive dreadlock down his back as a hairstyle, which probably should have alerted me to his sub-par hair cutting credentials) decided that I should look like a member of a Japanese boy band. And elf.

I was tempted halfway through to throw in the towel and get it cut all short but he was having such fun I let him get on with it. He sculpted and preened and blowdryed countless times and used amazing space age hair gels that form a web in your hands. And I didn't have the heart to tell him it wasn't what I had in mind...

He looked at it like it was his masterpiece. Like he'd just made a scale replica of the great wall out of matchsticks.

Well, it was an experience, and I fit right in here now. Shame that we leave tomorrow morning cos in Oz I'll just look like a J-pop nerd. At least it was cheap, I'll get the scissors and gel out, I'm sure I can salvage something.

Isn't traveling fun?