This is the view from our yoga shala... I may never leave. Someone please send Dave and Huey immediately as I'm pretty sure I'm going to refuse to leave Thailand :) 

We had our first day of class, which was lovely - we had orientation, met and learned about everyone and did a lovely yoga practice, got our books, workbooks and learned a bit about Ashtanga yoga. We marked up our mats with permanent marker with the proper hand/foot placements for our bodies... It killed me a little to do this to my brand new lululemon mat, but actually, it's sort of cool. My mat now isn't just pretty... it's a custom mat aligned for me by yoga masters in Thailand :) Boom. So cool :) 

Also. Thai food is the best thing ever. Everything is fresh, coconut is in everything and a meal is like $4. Yes please :)