First day in Chiang Mai

Okay guys I know I have a lot of catching up! Our first day in Chiang Mai was on Thursday. We flew out from Bangkok in the morning and arrived in Chiang Mai around 1030.  Immediately I am much more comfortable with the vibe in Chiang Mai then in Bangkok.  Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed our time in Bangkok but Chiang Mai seems to be more our pace.  Our hotel was pretty far from the town so from the airport we went into town first and got some food from a little place called sticky rice cafe.  We got pad thai .... we really branched out :) From there we decided it would be easiest to at least take our stuff to the hotel so we rode there in kind of a tuk tuk.  It is more like a truck and it has a roof for the back with two benches which is way more spacious.  It took about 45 minutes to get to the hotel but it was in a beautiful place.  It was more on the country side.  After dropping our things off we went to the Chiang Mai Zoo.  This zoo was HUGE! I have never been in a zoo that was so big before.  The first thing we got to do was pet a lemur.  No big deal.  The best part of the zoo was feeding the Hippos! I have never seen a hippo's mouth before and it was crazy.  Their teeth are so weird! We also got to feed the elephants as well.  We walked pretty far in the zoo and we ended up going out a different way then we came in which we did not think was a big deal.  We walked for about and hour or more before we got to a main road haha but it actually ended up being a really cool walk.  We finally got to a main road and were exhausted so we stopped for some coffee.  We ended up walking around the university district into Chiang Mai for the next couple hours and it was great! Just people watching, looking at a few stores and so on.  We ended up going through this local marked and we tried these mini coconut pancakes with onions-sounds weird but there were so good.  We stopped for some dinner at this little place in an alley that just had a big wok and only made pad thai (yes we ate pad thai for lunch and dinner).  Here are some pics from the day.