School Trip

     So I left off with my last trip to a wonderful and relaxing island. Well a few days after that trip I had been invited to go with my school class on a trip to the southeast area of Thailand. I, of course, took them up on their invitation.
       We left in the evening of the first day, and we didn't arrive until really early in the morning the next. We arrived so early in fact that no one slept, and instead we all took showers and got ready for the next day. After eating breakfast we went to a not so well known temple. After that we went to the most famous temple in Bangkok and probably all of Thailand: Wat Phra Kaeo. Then after that we went to what I came to understand as a palace, but it was basically a museum to for the past royal ways.

This is the not so well know temple, but still beautiful all the same.

I was trying to take pictures of my friends, but they got one of me instead.

The entrance to the famous Wat Phra Kaeo

I had been to the temple once before, so I spent most of my time there just talking to my friends.

One of many temples inside the Wat Phra Kaeo.

I know, another sideways picture, I'm sorry. This is the palace that we went to. We couldn't take any pictures inside, but I did get this one of the outside.

     I think after all of the touring we went to a zoo as well, but it wasn't worth taking any pictures there. The next day we got up, and I, along with the rest of my class, got to enjoy the experience of visiting Thailand's capital building. It reminded me a lot of seeing Illinois' capital building because of how small it was. After that we headed back to where we were staying and changed into swimming/beach gear. We headed to the beach and spent the rest of the afternoon there. Then we went for a nice dinner at a pier and retired soon after that.

These were some of the important documents on display at the capital building in Bangkok.

This is what reminded me of the capital building in Illinois. They have the same layout and everything.

Afterwards we went to the beach. They all decided to gang up on me and try to push me in the water.

Beach time, alright! Except for the fact that I have a dorky swimsuit on it was pretty cool.

The Thai guys are all into playing the guitar, and they brought two guitars with them on the trip.

As you can see at the dinner after I was pretty tired.

   Finally on the last day we traveled back to Udon. On the way we stopped at a huge image of Buddha inscribed on a mountain side by a laser, and after that we stopped at a winery near by. Then went on our way home...

Glad to have at least one picture with me and Buddha.

This is just to capture the shear size of the Buddha.

At this time I was looking at some of the teacher chaperons and trying to point out that there was no walking on the grass, even though they were doing just that at that moment.

A couple of my friends walking down some rows of grapevines in a great pic.