bangkok - grand palace 2 - albinos

speaking of tour guides, this was ours at the grand palace. he was really interesting and had a fairly progressive take on gender politics that he randomly decided to share with me, probably because i'm female. he also identified cathy and i as something else which was a tiny bit incorrect. and that was as albinos. while explaining to the group that in thailand albino elephants are revered and taken to live at the king's palace, he kept looking over at us and giggling. i picked up on this quite quickly since i'm already used to thai accents by now, and cathy wasn't far behind - it was not subtle - which of course caused us to giggle in response, and only fueled his fire. at one point he left the group while we went in to see a buddha made entirely of emerald, exclaiming in our direction, "i will go get a picture to show you!" the result is the above picture.