Mis-adventures in Tak.

This is a post of MISadventure. A story of bad karma. A warning....of what not to do at a Thai Temple.

One weekend I went to Stoney's site in the grand ol' province of Tak. He knew of a giant Buddha statue that we could visit. So we got a ride out there and it was amazing. HUGH and beautiful. 

We took some funny photos.

And we should have been on our way...

You could go inside this mammoth Buddha and leave flowers and money to make merit. It was inside the Buddha that Stoney discovered some stairs. They weren't finished, and at some points they turned to ladders,  but they also weren't blocked off. So I convinced Stoney we should climb them.

We climbed for AGES. At the top we found a door that would have opened out the back of Buddha's head but it was locked. So we climbed down.

On the way home for the giant Buddha we stopped at a waterfall.

It was here jumping from rock to rock that we discovered that 1. I am not a good jumper and 2. Buddha may be mad at us.

I landed wrong on a jump and hurt my right foot. It swelled and hurt to walk on but later x-ray's would show that nothing was seriously wrong with it.

That night we went to use the internet at Stoney's office. Stoney had forgotten something at home so he left me at the office while he returned home. On his way back he was leaving his gate and instead of turning left he accidently went straight into a coconut tree and flipped over his handlebars.

He got cut up pretty bad and had a bunch of bumps so his neighbor wanted to take him to the hospital. Just in case. He called me to come back so I could come with him.

Tak hospital. 

After I returned home, Stoney caught Dengue Fever and had to be admitted in a hospital in Bangkok. While he was away a stray cat got into Stoney's house and died. When Stoney got back he had to clean up the dead body and all the maggots.

 I lost 3200 baht.

Stoney's new kitten ran away. 

I got a flat tire. 

Stoney's neighbor cut down Stoney's tree that gave his house shade. 

I was told that we weren't going to have a rainy season this year and temps have stayed in the 100s.

I just want to say publicly, I am sorry Buddha for everything.