Female Correctional Facility
The Sunday after our motorized expedition to Doi Inthanon, we decided to take a day to relax, and enjoy the local weather, culture, and wireless internet.
It's worth noting that the original reason we stayed in Chiang-Mai another day was to see the protests of the red-shirts against the Thai prime minister, who was going to arrive on Sunday for an official function. We wanted to try our hands at war photography; the U.S. Consulate had urged all American citizens in Chiang-Mai to register with the consulate in case of violence. Unfortunately, the visit was canceled after a raid on one red-shirt leader's home discovered homemade explosives.
http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20091127-182620.html
As NPRonce said, we probably missed out on some very incendiary rhetoric...
In the meantime, Marvin! got so hungry that he tried to eat the money that he had.
nom nom nom
After discovering that plastic money tastes about as good as well...plastic, Marvin! came up with a better way of using the money: Thai massage! So, after some quick googling, we found a massage studio run by the local prison and staffed mostly by female inmates incarcerated for drug offenses (key word: mostly. We think our masseuses may have been there for something more violent. Also, all this information came from the internet, so we trusted I completely). Supposedly it had good reviews. So off we went to go get the famous Thai massage at a small shop right across from this: 
Two hours later, with slightly pulverized bodies, Marvin and myself were still confused whether the rigor of the massage was just the nature of the Thai massage or our masseus' relationship with the prison next door.i suppose we won't know until we pay vastly more for a massage at a resort, which won'y happen. Nevertheless, Thai massage is awesome!
