Ayuthaya

So Mar and I dont seem to be able to sleep in after 7 am. It could be the heat... we just seem to be waking when the sun rises and begin to feel sleepy once the sun goes down. THere was a beautiful sunset last night that lit the whole sky red.
We were able to relax the whole morning until 1:30..So we sunbathed and swam in the pool all morning. Marni got a nice tan---on one side of her body (one half is white one brown haha) and i lathered myself with suntan lotion! I am very proud of myself as i havent burned once in this strong heat!We had a boat pick us up as the hotel was on an island and we had a two hour bus (absolutely brutal) ride to Ayuthaya. oh my gosh.. That is when the heat really hit me. My head was throbbing and i was super quizzy. It was a very cramped bus with an almost broken air conditioner. It was atleast 40 degrees yesterday so we were glued to our seats with sweat by the end of two hours. I had a thudding headache and was just glad we had nothing planned the rest of the day but arrive at the hotel. Luckily our hotel had air conditioning! it was such a luxery to have that after being in hotels with no air breeze or had only a fan.
We had a free tuk tuk ride through the town and were able to see the ruins (ancient cities that built amazing temples and buddhas but was destroyed in the early 1600's). As we watched the sun set we walked amungst the crumbled city... It was all SO beautiful. The loved the roots winding out of the ground from the huge trees.
We watched elephants walk by thestreets of Ayuthaya in vibrant colors mostly orange and yello: the monarchs favourite colour and thier religous color, the color of the monks.
We have seen a few monks walking through town or in the ruins and everytime we follow them acting like excited tourists. We will soon gain enough guts to ask to take a picture with them!
Well we have the entire day to explore Ayuthaya today and have a sleeper train (12 hours) to Chiang Mai.