Location: Chaing Mai
On the 28th February we embarked on a 12 hour bus trip from Bangkok northwards. Suprisingly, this bus journey went against the grain of our travel experiences so far. Although we were separated in our seating arrangements, Lee landed on his feet by being placed next to a nice blonde English gal. He was happy. Lindsay sat next to another Lee, not brother Lee - but Ozzy Lee. A nice and friendly Australian lad who despite being genuinely nice and good, refused to spoon him throughout the night. We, brilliantly, managed to sleep on this trip - all-be-it for 3 of those 12 hours.
Anyhoo, the first time Lindsay ever heard his older brother scream like a 7 year-old school girl at a Spice Girls reunion concert came on the 29th February, 2007 at approximately 12:17 pm. We were now in Chaing Mai in the north of Thailand.
More specifically, we were at the Mae Sa Snake Farm, minding our own business when the manager invited us to climb over a big wall and into a pit. Foolishly, we took up the kind offer and within a matter of mili-seconds, we both had at least 5 snakes around each of our heads.
The snakes were then piled and piled upon our head, neck and shoulders but not our knees or toes. If we had been wearing lipstick, eye gloss, and mascara we would have surely have looked like Medusa.
The challenge was to see how many snakes we could have put on us before we freaked out. Well that number for both of us was one but we did stay in there a lot longer. Again one of us surpassed the other one. There was no dignity in it, the screaming like a girl at the aforementioned Spice Girl concert being displayed by both of us from the moment of entry into that pit.
Surprisingly, snakes smell like... fish.
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