Cheever Fever: A Relaxing Day

Ever since we have been in Thailand, we have felt like we have been on the move. Today, we played the relax card and took things a little slower. We didn't even leave our hotel room until 10:30ish. It was so nice to be in a clean and comfortable hotel room. We found some breakfast from a lady with a pull cart near our hotel. We had sticky rice and muu bing (this one is easy..."moo bing"). Muu bing is pork on a stick and it is good.
We walked to the center of town and found our way through markets. We felt like Andrew Zimmern on the Travel Channel when we would wind and weave our way through a market and we would discover a locals market hidden from the tourists. We were the only white people there and we were glad this market remained hidden. It was much more smelly from diffrent fish. I don't think tourists could handle it.
We rented bikes for 3 hours for $4 (120 baht) and just cruised around town. It felt super nice to play the relaxing card and not really do much.
A couple of things we've noticed lately:
-We are not as hungry as often now. We think we may be getting use to the diet here.
-Our hotel in Ubon had a scale and Spike has lost about 7 lbs. in the last 4 weeks. Not a bad diet plan. If Atkins, Jenny Craig, or Weight Watchers doesn't do it for you, come to Southeast Asia.
-How simple life can be. We don't need all the fancy things to have a great life. We can get by with less.
-How similar we are with the people all over the world. We have witnessed time and time again of people coming home after a long hard day at work and love being with their families or going about their busy lives or just trying to make some simple money to pay for food that day for their family.
-How much the Lord has blessed us. We have tried really hard to do all we can to remain obedient out here and everything has fallen into place with our plans over the next three weeks.
Enjoy a few pictures.