THAI POOH

Since before our trip around Asia had even materialized in our brains, we had made plans to meet up with our friends, D and Tracy, in Thailand. The reason for this trip was two-fold; to visit with our long lost Korean-bound friends for some good Thailand debauchery after months of not seeing one another and to begin a lifetime adventure known in the inner circles as Thai Pooh.

Thai pooh started out formerly as the "Pooh slipper dinners" in Edmonton, Canada. We (Jason, Corinne, D and Tracy) each chose three restaurants in Edmonton (restaurants in which we had never visited before) and put our designated choices in one of Corinne's used Winnie the Pooh slippers. Each month we would get together at one of the chosen restaurants with the Pooh slipper in toe (a facinating little irony for those paying attention! That's Jason's way of making you realize that Corinne's sentence was especially funny. She didn't even realize her own sharp wit.) Sitting down to a glorious (or sometimes not-so-glorious) meal, we would prominently place the Pooh slipper in the center of the table and after the first toasts were had, the next Pooh destination would be chosen. These dinners were put in place to guarantee that time would be taken to visit with our friends at least once a month and it would also force us to experience different parts of Edmonton that we would not normally visit. After the completion of the Pooh slipper, all four of us thought how fun it would be to experience the Pooh slipper on an international level. And so the idea of the Thai Pooh was born.

Each of us chose one domestic destination (within Canada and USA) and each couple chose one international destination as the six official Thai Pooh nominations. The only rules were that each destination had to have something to do with the local food or drink and all four participants had to be present for each Thai Pooh festivity.

One other stipulation was that a new "Pooh slipper" had to be found to hold all of the nominations. Because it was now known as Thai Pooh, we wanted to buy a container in Thailand. Due to some of the participants lack of love for shopping, the Thai Pooh was found relatively quickly from a hill tribe market near Chiang Mai. All nominations were researched, written and accounted for in the new Thai Pooh. Now for the choosing!!

We all sat down for some street Pad Thai on our last night together in Chiang Mai. Everyone was in giddy anticipation for our next destination to be revealed. Earlier that day Jason was arbitrarily picked to choose the next destination. In true Jason fashion, he verbally rambled on about cherishing the moment, quality time together, meaning of life, blah, blah, blah... until we all started yelling at him to tell us where we were off to next. By reading off the nomination, Jason sealed our fates for the next Thai Pooh destination.

As D and Tracy have not revealed the Thai Pooh location on their blog, we feel that it is not our place to reveal it either. Instead we shall give you some clues...

i. Jason and Corinne nominated this international location
ii. Neither of us have visited this continent before
iii. We will all be enjoying a nice cup of tea together

ANY GUESSES???!!!???!!!

- Jason and Corinne