Monday, October 05, 2009

Oct 5 - Tiger Kingdom

We had a late breakfast today and watched some BBC news, went to post office to mail home some gifts. Went onto internet, then about 2:00pm decided to go to Tiger Kingdom. We heard that you could play with small tigers or big tigers. We got a tuk tuk for 200 baht ($5-$8 Cdn) for the 35 min trip there and back. The tigers were so cute. Rachel and I chose to see the small tigers. They were 10 months old but already so big. Because today is a real hot day all they did was lay on the grass and pant. Sometimes they opened their eyes and looked at us. They had 3 trainers in the cage with us and the trainers took pictures for us too. We got to meet Anikan Skywalker, Edward, and Layla. We had 15 mins in the cage with them and i thought it was just enough time as they were not that playful. We felt the weight of Edward's paw and it felt more heavy than my full grown cat Joey. Dean decided to go into see the big tigers. Dean got got to visit all three full grown tigers in the enclosure also. One of the trainers decided while Dean was in the enclosure to get the one tiger to play, he had a grasstype toy ontop of a bamboo stick that the trainer used to tempt the tiger to chase it into the water and out. The tiger really liked that toy. It was so cool to watch. Dean got an amazing shots of the tiger in midair with droplets of water while he was in the enclosure.

On internet now, i'm organizing my blog posts for more accuracy and details so read back a couple posts for more update on the white temple. Tonight, i went for a thai massage to loosen up my upper body. I had a one hour massage this time, and it hurt, cause my muscles were sore and she wanted to work out my kinks as she was saying "quick quick for a one hour" meaning she couldn't take the time to work out the knots any better.

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