Dinner with Tukta's ENTIRE family!

Tukta decided to surprise Ana and I with taking us out to a nice dinner with her entire extended family! I was embarrassed of how I was dressed, but I thought we were just going back to our dorm rooms. Tukta's cousin, Sham Poo, was 21 years old. She is studying to be a veteranarian.

There were a lot of people and we ate a LOT of food!

I fell in love with Tukta's cousin named Earth. She was 6 years old. I did a cartwheel for her outside and she was fascinated!

Tukta's grandmother, Tukta, her mother, father and brother (his name is Bank!). They were all sooo nice!

Here is all of us with the King in the background!

Elephants near Pattaya!

This guy loved me! Or he wanted me to feed him some bananas . . .

I gave him some bananas! Brian yelled at me for sticking it in his nostril! I thought that's where I was supposed to put it!

Do I look nervous here? I was.

Okay okay, I didn't really see this live. There was a picture on the wall at the elephant place.

THAI Karaoke!

Tukta and I were excited for the Karaoke place!

Thais are serious about Karaoke--they had like 40 private rooms available to rent out at this place!

I was the only American excited about singing I think (without alcohol). Why do the Thais love Brittany Spears?

It was Sara and Ritchie's birthday celebration!

I had a real Mai Thai!! It was super weak!

Ying and Ritchie sang a Thai love song!

I sang The Beatles! LET IT BE! (Anders, it wasn't as good as you!)

I sang like 20 songs! It was a blast!

SEAFOOD Restaurant in Pattaya!!

I got a yellow shirt just like everyone else has in Thailand!

I ate squid! It was nasty. Very chewy.

I also had my first Mai Thai!

The lobster was out of this world! Thanks for ordering it Brian!!

MEEEE, Sara and Brian! :)

Pattaya!

I had to eat American food again! My stomach can't handle Thai food!

Our hotel had this sign: No Durian allowed. That was fine with me because I am allergic to it!

I was so scared of going into the ocean once I heard there were jellyfish everywhere!

Nobody else was that scared! (Ana, Sara and Brian)

A Jelly!!!

Ana got scared too! We got out of the ocean!

We went in one of the FOUR HUGE pools at our hotel!

Marine Zoo near Pattaya

We were all so excited to be at the zoo! Especially the biology majors!

There were so many animals I have never seen before in my life!

These octopi looked like they were talking to each other!

The seahorses were my favorite!

I wanted to be a seahorse!

Some of the fish were HUGE!

We got to see a zoo employee feed the large fish in the huge tank! It was awesome!

On our way to Pattaya!

Ritchie (a boyfriend of one of the Thai grad students) drove us from Bangkok to Pattaya!

Traffic was horrendous!

We stayed at a University in a dorm room! It was only $3/night for each room!

The catch was that there were salamanders EVERYWHERE! Even in the shower!

We went out for dinner and I had some pork spring rolls!

It was sooooo great to see everyone! Brian, MEEEE, and Sara!

Brita, MEEEEE, Ana and Carrie!