Quickie

We're in Chiang Mai now. My back has been acting up pretty badly and Stacie picked up a cold on the plane, but we're not letting that stop us.

Second day in Bangkok was for the Grand Palace and Wat Pho. Very hot in Bangkok but manageable, even in pants/ long skirts for the temples:

We brought additional tops to wear when inside the temples as well

First stop was the Grand Palace, with all of its grandeur

And then we went to Wat Pho with the reclining Buddha (didn't think we could take pictures of the Buddha until a monk elbowed Stacie out of the way to take a selfie).

Rachel made merits on our behalf as well

By placing a coin in over 100 different offering cups.

After the temple, we went to lunch along the river in an air conditioned restaurant. Overall the food has been good but it's been too hot to eat a lot. This was the first meal we ate ravenously. A little bit of shopping and a walk through the flower market

And we were off to the airport for our 1 hour flight to Chiang Mai.

We're a day behind on the blogging so we'll try to catch up later today as it's a day of wandering the city of Chiang Mai.