Long Time Over Due

After enjoying the air condition and a couple games of backgammon (Will is winning the world tour) we decided to take on the heat again. This time our destination was Wat Po. On the way to Wat Po we crossed a football field sized market. While crossing we saw a man attempt to steal two hats. He was faster then two of the employees at the stand (one of which was wielding a large bambo rod.) The robber was tripped up for a second by another vendor but escaped that as well. Right before he was in the clear the street caused him to slow down. Unfortunatly for him this allowed the two men originally chasing him to catch up. They decided it was necessary to litterlyl kick him while he was down. After a the robber was beaten up they dragged him to the side of the street.
The rest of the trip to see Wat Po was consumed with the events we had just seen. Wat Po is where the largest reclining Buddha in the world rests. It is 15 meters high and around 47 meters long. The Buddha was impressive to say the least. The grounds around him were also impressive. They were filled with more buddhas and temples.
On the walk back from the temple Rooney and I were hit up by our first scam. The worst part was we new it was happening and could do nothing. As we were walking back a old women through a handful of corn infront of us. This caused around a hundred pigoens to colapse on our position. We were trapped. The old women then proceeded to hand us open bags of corn. Our initital refusals were meet with another women giving us more corn. The fight was over before it even began. Both women dumped corn into our hands forcing us to spread it around. They claimed it was free do to a "buddha day". However seconds later we apperantly owed them 120 baht a peice. We gave them a 100 and left.
The next morning it was time to see if we could meet up with Rooney's freind, Jesus. With minimal ways of contacting him and no respose to the email we seend we headed to the bus station. To our suprise we were just waiting in one of the hallways and in he came.
From Bangkok we took an overnight bus to Krabi to meet up with Tom and Merrill. From Krabi we planned on going south to a couple of Islands. Not quite caught up yet but hopefully the next instalement will not take so long to post.