Thomas has booked himself into another day of mountain biking, so Mrs. Columbus and I are going to spend the day getting some other things taken care of.  We desperately need a massage 🙂 and we are also going to meet our friend Riam this morning to plan a few things for this week.

Thomas will be leaving Chiang Mai tomorrow but we are able to fit in a trip to the elephant park before he leaves.  Riam is going to pick us all up early and we will head off to Mae Tang for the morning. After our visit with Riam we stop for lunch (yes, at the usual spot) and then some pool time at the hotel before going out for a late afternoon massage.  Just after we sat down for our massage the skies opened up and the rain beat down, but it was quite peaceful to sit in our massage chairs and watch it come down.

The rain has stopped before the massage ends, and from there we walk over to Ginny Cafe to meet up with Tee, Ian and Thomas.  For Thomas’ last dinner in Chiang Mai we are all going out for Mu Kratha (Thai BBQ).  It is a fun experience to cook your own foods at the table over while socializing with your friends – sort of like we would do with fondue back home.

After a leisurely dinner, we decide that walk back will do us some good and we walk off alongside the moat that surrounds the old city.  As fate would have it our journey takes us past the Crazy German Bar that we were at a few nights ago, and we decide that Mrs. Columbus needs to meet the crazy german.   The intent is to just pop in for a quick beer and say hello, and that mostly goes according to plan, but at some point Kevin (the crazy german) pops out his supply of over-proof schnapps for everyone to have a shot.

Fortunately we only have the one shot (except for Thomas and I who somehow get tricked into finishing Mrs. Columbus’ for her), and Tee and Mrs. Columbus are there to keep things from going off the rails. We have a bit of a busy day tomorrow and we all decide that moving on and getting a good night’s sleep is the right thing to do.