Meet our latest visitor!

A couple days ago a Monocled Cobra showed up on the carport. Fortunately, we saw it in time and it was a small one. Cobras, as most people know, are very poisonous and dangerous. But like most snakes they are also very shy and non aggressive, so we had little problem convincing him to leave the area. Now we are just hoping, since he was a young one, that he doesn't have any siblings hanging around!

On a less exciting note, we finally got a car last week. Its a little red 2004 Honda Jazz that we picked up from the owner of a small resort of Koh Jum. We've been driving around a

bit getting use to driving on the left and having the steering wheel on the right. We haven't been too far since we didn't have insurance until yesterday, and we still don't have driver's licenses. We had heard we would get a pass on getting the Thai driver's license and not have to take a test, but that's not the case. We have to take a written test, in English at least, and a driving test with parallel parking! The parallel parking will be the tricky part since its on the left of course. We've been practicing and will give it a try next week.