Hoops Hoops Hoops

Ok... a lot to post about from this weekend... its been quite a full one.

I got up Saturday morning and decided to ask the hotel owner if he knew were to find irrigation pipe. Had google translate the words for me, then brought up some pictures. He figured out what i was asking about pretty quickly and called over the hotels maintenance guy. He told him to take me to some shop... few minutes later we were on his motorbike off down the road! The shop isn't all that far (maybe a 20-30 minute walk) and all it sells is piping. I grabbed 50meter of the pipe I wanted for about $20 (after cutting a few hoops... I thought about how long 50 meters actually was and really should have had them cut it down to maybe 25). I throw the tubing over my shoulder and we were back on the motorbike..... carrying that actually wasn't as hard as I thought it would be.

Got back to the hotel and the hotel manager helped me cut the pipe (they let me barrow a saw for the blade I bought to cut the pipe). I asked him if we should cut it outside.... but he was perfectly fine with me doing it in the middle of the lobby. As soon as we finished one of the ladies that works behind the desk swept up the mess.

Once we finished cutting the hoops he boiled some water for me and we put them together.... and he had some boy that might be his kid get a cloth and some ice to cool the pipe after we got the connector in... not really necessary but eee.

So... to sum it up.... the hotel staff here is really nice. I thanked them a lot and then headed of to House Works (Lowes) and Big C to find some tape. Couldn't find any gapher.. but I found cloth tape which seems somewhat decent. While I was at Big C I stopped by the Mr Doughnut and grabbed a dozen random doughnuts to take back to the hotel staff..... I think the doughnuts were more annoying to carry on the motorbike then the tubing was....

I tapped a few hoops this weekend. I made one for Malta's thai g/f ( she seemed really attached to my hoop while we were wonder Putong). One for Veronica, one of another guy in the course who said he was interested in learning, one of the daughter of one of the hotel staff (she is like 8 and always running around the hotel), and one for Rachel. Of course the ones for non-locals are collapsible... and the connectors here seem to work really well for collapsing.