Ice love you sho mush

Vee's b-fast.

Today started out like any other day, it has definitely become the norm to sleep in, wake up and dick around on the iPad for wayyyyy too long. I'm not happy about this but it's so hard to break a habit once it seems to engrave itself inside of you. I'm finding it hard to fall into a positive routine while traveling, most likely because we never stay anywhere long enough to enable us to even start to think about having order in our lives. Then again is order that important in the first place? I mean look at the majority of people in society, they have order in their lives and most are just kind of content or borderline depressed without even knowing it. For example, having a morning routine, going to work at the time each day, eating the same ol' sh*t and finishing your day with exhaustion from working all day, is that it? I wish I could speak more modestly but I know for a fact that, that's not what life is about, it may be different for people with kids but all in all people have got to get themselves unstuck and unbored (new word..yup!).

Buddha.

To some of you I may be repetitive but lezbehonest here, most people need to hear this sh*t more than a few times. I already knew most of what I'm stating to you before this trip, but seeing Thai people work 12 hours days, everyday, with no days off and being happier than people back in Canada made me realize more so that something ain't right. When did we get so bored and boring? Probably somewhere in between the crappy unwholesome food we shove in our faces and the advanced technology (like I'm using right now...), is where we were pushed into a downward spiral. I really do hate to sound negative because the outcome I desire is completely the opposite, but sometimes it comes across as such, unfortunately. Awaken, enlighten and surround yourself with what and who you truly love, everything else is just a speed bump or irrelevant, think about it. You hate your job? Quit. You can't because you have too much stuff to pay for? Sell what you don't actually need. Wish you could travel? Start a f*cking piggy bank (No, really do it..). There's a way around anything and at the end of the day you need to follow your heart (Awwwwww.. I know right, sho cute!), don't become bored or boring, that's just painful to watch for everyone else and like an old broken record for you bro!

Buddhist Temple.

Ok, ok time to talk to you about our day:)

Wakey wakey, not eggs and bakey. We got up, showered and went downstairs to grab some breakfast from J4U, Vee got a peanut butter and banana toastie (we call these bagels in Canada) and I got a fresh orange, pineapple, banana and ginger smoothie. After breakie went back to see the amazing temple we saw the night before because we wanted to see it in the day time. The temple is next to the Buddhist university so we stopped in quickly to ask a few questions, I wanted to know if they take English students but sadly they don't, I guess I'll have to stick with the free monk chats they offer each day. Yesterday I looked up a blog that had a post about all the vegan restaurants, food stalls and markets they went to while visiting Chiang mai, so I decided that we would go on a search for some of them today. 

One of many gates to enter old town Chiang mai.

First up! Tip's best fruit smoothies, we stopped here for a fruit snack and it was very much worth our while. Later on we walked around a fruit market then went back to have a fresh veggie loaded salad at J4U once again. Back at the hostel, I decided to give myself a homemade haircut, it turned out pretty good actually and the lesbi-bun is sadly almost gone... It was time though because it was getting so long that it quickly reminded me why I cut my hair short in the first place back in grade 12 (Too many top knots out here, who likes to blend in anyway, that's just lame). After my somewhat successful haircut we then hung out at the hostel until dinner time, we gave ourselves a pretty good buffer and made sure we left the hostel not too hungry but fully expected to be hungry once our 45 minute trek to the resto of choice was over.

Paintings at ice love you.

The restaurant was called khun Churn vegetarian restaurant and I think the food was good but I'm not entirely sure since the spiciness destroyed my mouth. When we finished our meal we met a cute little man named Mike who was looking for some help finding his guest house, he's from Minnesota but has been living and teaching English in Japan for 15 years. Mike told us a bit about how to maybe get into teaching English out here to make a bit of extra cash if needed, which was awesome because we've both thought about it but didn't really know what the next step was. After our little chat we walked another hour to get to a vegan ice cream parlour called "ice love you", once we finally got here it was probably one of the most wicked places ever. Ice love you was filled with superhero paintings and dolls everywhere along with 20 different flavours of vegan ice cream, needless to say the ice cream was epic and the experience as a whole was epic'er.

Vee pretending to be patiently waiting for the ice cream.

We ended up with 3 each which were, mint choc, choc cookie, 2 vanilla cookie, blueberry soy yogurt and Spider-Man flavour. I promise the scoops look bigger in the picture lol

Since it was dark out by the time we left the parlour we took a taxi back to the hostel and now... You guessed it! It's time for bed.

A bientot,

Janelle brine