Our family reunion in Chang Mai was so amazing! When we arrived in Chang Mai, we all hopped in a red van ( which is like a taxi in Thailand) and we drove to our guesthouse. After settling in, our parents told us to come to the guesthouse restaurant for a drink but surprisingly, we found our Aunt and her partner, Cody, sitting at a table in the restaurant. It was one of those moments that you would remember forever since we hadn’t seen a family member( not including each other) in six months. We sat down at the table with them and shared stories. 
It turned out that they were travelling around Thailand so we changed our travel itineraries to see them and we were never actually going to go to Thailand. That night, we all went to the hawker stalls for dinner. We tried scorpion on a stick and crocodile I preferred the scorpion because the crocodile was to chewy. 
It was hilarious to watch a boy around my age try scorpion because he had watched us first so he thought he could do it but ended up gaging. For desert we ate rolled ice cream and it was really cool to see how they made it.
The next morning was our Thai cooking class. 
Chang Mai is known for cooking classes so we thought we ought to go. We started off going to the food market and picking out all sorts off different spices, ingredients and veggies for our cooking class. 
After that, we picked out what six different dishes we wanted to make in the class. I picked: fried veggie spring rolls, pad Thai, sweet and sour prawn soup,Mussuman curry, prawns baked with vermicelli and sticky rice with mango.Our first course was the spring rolls. 
They were the best ones yet! There was tofu and veggies in it. Then we made the prawns and the pad Thai. It was all so good. After that we made curry, curry paste, the soup and then lastly we made the sticky rice. 
After the course we were so full we had to roll home. It really was the best food I’d ever had! That night we headed to the markets to get a bit of exercise. The next morning we had to say goodbye to our Aunt and Cody. It was tough. Then, we walked around the old city and we visited a Buddhist temple. 
At 7pm it was time for our first massage. It was absolutely amazing. We did a Thai massage, it was a normal massage until she started to stretch me like I was a peace of bubble gum. It was hard not to scream but it was totally worth every single minute by the end. I would totally go back to Thailand!
One Family, One World, One Year 