This is not a photoshop manifestion, folks. What you see before you are 4 inch hissing cockroaches ( with some limes, chilies, nuts ) prepared for sale by a street vendor in Bangkok. You hear about this sort of nonsense back home, as a sort of urban-travel legend. Alas, it is REAL! I offer the alarming evidence: this photo.

The first day we walked past this vendor, I didn't have my camera, and she had the same set-up ( with large roaches and live crickets) and I cursed myself endlessly for having forgotten it. It is not everyday you see this sort of thing on the street. In any case, I had my camera with me today, and had to take a picture. I tried to take a photo of the weaved basket heavy with live, springing crickets, but the heavy foot-traffic prevented this...

I did want to really show scale of these insects ( a la the new King Kong movie), but my stomach revolted entirely at 3 feet, so putting my head, hand, belonging next to these was not an option...

Anyway...more to come soon my lovelies! I felt guilty about not blogging for so long :)

PS. Hi Sabrina!! Lotsa lov to you, Derek and Kaia!!! ( sp?)xoxox