baseball and abortions

Yesterday was a fabulous lazy Thai Sunday.

-I had my first long(ish) run since the race and my legs felt strong.
-I made a yummy thai omlette and thai ice tea (time #2- this time less mess).
-Jeeda and I walked to the sunday morning market and got some fruit and browsed the shirts
-We made fried bananas- one of my favorite treats in thailand.
-I fell asleep on the bench (thai couch) in their kitchen and had a great nap w a fan on me.
-Had a long phone converstaion with a friend who just got to site.
-Jeeda, Wendy, Munglee and I went to the Sunday evening market. [I bought a moo-moo dress and a thai t-shirt that says in thai "Can I 'bang' you?" Which is not sexual at all, but a reference to blessing you with baby powder on your cheeks at the Thai new year]
-We came home and watched 'The Perfect Catch' (thai dubbed)

Do you know 'The Perfect Catch'? It's a romantic comedy where Drew Barrymore falls for this guy during the off season only to find out that during the baseball season he is a Red Sox fanatic. Can you blame the guy?

It was so great to see all the shots of Boston and Fenway Park and the Red Sox. And I loved sharing it all with Jeeda and Wendy.

There was one part the said couple had a little moment of relief that she wasn't pregnant. Jeeda was so suprised to learn that Americans get worried about being pregnant. I didn't understand why she would think this, but it's because I had just been telling her abortion is legal in America and you can go to the doctor to get one safetly. Unfortunately that's not at all the case in Thailand. It's illegal and I gather it's dangerous and expensive if you want to get one.

I have to say i reacted stronger than I should have at her assumption that Americans just hop over to get an abortion any time. But then I explained all the reasons that would be undesirable, and why it doesn't happen, and therefore, why Americans are nervous about getting pregnant.