OceanicThai

You know you've been in Thailand awhile when: You are always served fish with the head on and your friend asks for the eyeball. Your son isn't sure how to shake hands. Snakes, centipedes, scorpions, giant spiders & leeches are part of your everyday life. Your kids haven't had Kraft Mac-N-Cheese for 2 years. You spray mosquito repellent on every evening at dusk, and stay inside the house. Toads live in your shoes and in your kitchen. Walls are covered in geckos, flat surfaces are covered with gecko poop. You pick up a tiny branch in your bathroom and it turns into a bug. Everything is covered with a weird greasy grime. Shoes disintegrate within a year or so. Everyone is smiling at a funeral, including you.

Here's the long waited moment when we finally get to see the show they did on our team at the center next door about the wild foods they hunt down and cook up. (Too bad they missed the python last month.) T.V. Schedule "Sep. 09 10:00PM ET (60 minutes) Remind Me Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern Phuket, Thailand TV-PG Join Andrew in Phuket, a tropical paradise and a favorite of travelers from around the world. He'll venture beyond the stunning beaches to discover the Thais who live in this part of the country embrace life on all levels and feast on all things. http://www.travelchannel.com/tv-schedules/series.html?seriesId=31753&start=40 It will also run: Sep 9 11 p.m. ET Sep 10 2 a.m. ET Sep 10 9 p.m. ET Sep 11 1 a.m. ET Sep 11 7 p.m. ET Sep 15 9 p.m. ET Sep 16 1 a.m. ET"

Beautiful Poppy Originally uploaded by oceanicthai

Leech Up The Nose Originally uploaded by oceanicthai Ginger sniffed a leech and it went up her nose. We pulled it out and it was full of blood. Poor Ginger...

Wow! Originally uploaded by oceanicthai

We are so relieved that Poppy does NOT have methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus MRSA, like we feared. She has a tetracycline-resistant Staphylococcus aereus infection, which is not as serious.

Cobra pics 006 Originally uploaded by oceanicthai "When at rest cobra's heads are not very distinct from the neck, but when threatened and on the defensive the ribs in the neck can be expanded to create the famous cobra 'hood'. -Snakes Of Thailand (Quoted from this book.)