We set out to get our Thai driver’s and motorcycle licenses today. It is quite a humorous process, at least for the "farang" (foreigners). First, you need a health screening. This is a 1.5 minute exam where they take your blood pressure, weight, height, and ask, "Are you dying?". I'm not joking. The Dr. did't even see Lori. Then, you pay them $3 and leave.
We figured the difficult part was over, but not so fast. We learned that we need additional paperwork from the immigration office. But the more humorous part was that while we were driving and looking for the immigration office, we made a right turn into oncoming traffic on the opposite side of the road! Fortunately there wasn't an accident, just a bunch of confused drivers coming the opposite direction! If that wasn't funny enough already, we looked to curb to see two police officers standing outside their truck staring at us with a dumbfounded look on their faces! How funny would that have been though if we got pulled over for driving on the wrong side of the road? Imagine if they had asked what we were doing!
The Hillsong band (from Australia) came to Chiang Mai for a free concert tonight... and tomorrow morning and tomorrow night... and the next night!! It was absolutely fabulous!! We got there a bit early (two hours to be exact) to get close seats and there wasn't anyone there.
But after three cover bands, the stadium was completely packed out with three to four thousand people who had traveled from all over Thailand! It was worth every penny and was so uplifting! We learned Hillsong never charges for their concerts as they intend to serve Christ and spread the gospel without restriction.
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