Gai, our local contact person who brings us dinner, etc., along with her husband, Mai, and their 3 children had as to dinner at their house last night (Thursday). They live on a narrow street of newer (3o years old?)houses, that we would call town house because they are all linked together. There is a small court yard (20'x20'?) in front of the house that also serves as kitchen and dinning room. Gai cooked us a superb Thai meal. Many Thai don't do much cooking at home rather they buy prepared food from the ubiquitous vendors. Gai had to borrow dishes from the house in which we volunteer to serve us.
At the mall on Wednesday Ed & Shera were shopping for presents for Gai's children. The youngest child, age 4, threw the mother of all tantrums when it looked like the older siblings would get a bike but not her. They ended up buying two bikes, a tiny one for the 4yr old, and full size for the 8 and 10 year olds. When we brought the bikes to Gai's house the older children showed no emotion about the gift. Last night at dinner we saw how they felt about it as they spent the whole evening taking turns giving each other rides up and down the street as the 4yr old pedaled furiously on her little bike with training wheels. The street is about 25' wide and very quiet, a good place to rides bikes...and feed elephants as it turned out.
While we were watching the bikes an elephant came down the street begging for food. He really set the dogs off. For 20Baht, about 75 cents, you could buy a bag of sugar cane stalks to the feed the elephant. The elephant took each stalk out of my hand and when the bag was empty he took the bag and handed it up to the mahout on his back.
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