I feel so old...

Note: This post should be about last weekend, when I visited Hanoi, Vietnam, which is now one of my favorite cities in the world. But I took a thousand pictures and have no way to upload them, so that post will have to wait. For now, my birthday:

Hello, all. I'm writing now as a twenty year old. Two decades. No longer a teenager. I feel so responsible and mature. HA! It's actually been a lot of fun, teasing my bosses about feeling old, as they're all 35 and older. For my birthday, Friday the fourth, I left work at 3 to meet up with Ted. He took me to get measured to have a few shirts made. Bangkok tailors are apparently very detail oriented--and they picked out fabrics they swear will look good in London. A good thing, too, as when they handed me four books, each with about a hundred fabrics, I just started laughing. So then they showed me just four and I chose three--a much better system. I go back tomorrow (Monday) for a fitting.

After the tailor's shop, we hit a few sports bars, and then tried to meet Meg for a traditional American meal at the Great American Rib Company, but unfortuneately, in addition to being my birthday, apparently the Fourth of July has some bigger meaning and everyone American in the city had already reserved the restaurant. Who'd have thought? haha. So we went towards another rib place, but the traffic was so bad, we though we'd ditch the driver and just walk to the Sky Train. Great idea, until two feet of water fell in 30 minutes. Not exeagerration. Well, maybe a little. I have never been so soaked. But it actually was great fun. And when we finally arrived at the restaurant, I had a big rack of ribs, a full corn on the cob, and a bacon-loaded baked potato. All-in-all, delicious Fourth of July Feast.

Went to bed early, as I had to be up at early the next morning to be at the fair grounds at 8am for the American Independence Day Picnic. I was decently excited, as about 3/4 for my internship thus far has been the organization of this event. Lets just say 16 hours later, I was hot, sweaty, muddy, and tired as ever, but very satisfied with the 2500 person attendence record, the sale of all 6000 of the booth prizes I gathered the last month, and the fireworks display coordinated with a Blues band.

Thanks to all that sent Birthday wishes. They are much appreciated. I have about 3 1/2 weeks left in Thailand, and will hopefully have many more adventures, or at least stories, to share.