More Fun Today

Well, we had another fun-filled day here in Thailand. We are certainly getting our adrenaline fix here. Today we went to the Lakeland Cable Ski Park. Have you ever heard of cable skiing? It's pretty neat. It is basically just like water skiing except, instead of being pulled by a boat, you are pulled by a cable and pulley system.

It is all done in a lake. In the center of the lake there is an oval cable circuit. It rotates around the lake at 28 mph. There is a control booth that can hook ropes to it at different intervals. You hold onto one of the ropes on a launching platform. When it engages, it yanks you off the platform and away you go around the lake.

You can use a knee-board, wake-board, saucer or skis. It was so much fun. After cable skiing for two hours, we were all pretty worn out. We got back to the hotel and Sam and I went out on the beach for a Thai massage. It felt incredible after being so sore from holding on the the cable ropes.

The price of a massage here is only 200 Baht (about 6 US Dollars) for one hour. We were on a little patio about 25 feet from the gulf. There was a nice breeze and you could hear the waves crashing. Thai massages are different. They twist and stretch your body in all kinds of ways. Despite my horrible flexibility, I found myself contorted like a pretzel quite often. I don't know how she did it. It kind of reminded me of Superman when he bends a bar of steel. Surprisingly, I felt very relaxed afterward.

We have half the day here tomorrow and then we travel back to the Bangkok airport for a 5:00 pm flight back to the US.