Crying in Chiang Mai

Liddy
So, we had to bid the family farewell today and the kids are heartbroken. We waved goodbye as they disappeared off in a songthaew (jeep) and the kids started wailing and didn't stop for quite some time. Clearly, the thought of another few months with just Mum and Dad for company is NOT a pleasant one.
Anyway, we've had a great couple of days. We are still up in Chiang Mai and a couple of days ago Alistair, Mathilda, Sam and I headed out to the forest to go Jungle Flying. This meant donning a foxy harness (climbers take note, you may think you look good but a harness is just NOT a good look), a blue shower cap (ostensibly to keep the hair out of the various bits of equipment, but possibly just to make us all look like dinner ladies), and a helmet and then climbing up into to forest canopy to be linked up to zip wires and fly from platform to platform a la a gibbon. It was amazing.
We abseiled, zipped along 300m long wires, climbed up staircases spiralling around giant trees, and followed suspension paths through the jungle. And, I mean we. Mathilda and Sam did everything and loved every minute of it. Sam had one nervous moment when he had to abseil off a platform 40m up in the air, but he managed it and was chuffed to bits afterwards.
Mike and Kathie went the following day (we had to go in shifts and Sebastian and Meggles were too young) and also seemed to enjoy themselves.
We are heading towards Laos tomorrow, and will probably take 4-5 days to reach there. No idea what the internet options are going to be like for the next couple of weeks, so if we go a bit quiet, that will be why.