Thursday: went to the waterfalls (Erawan) drove back in the bus with the group and were all dropped off near Khaosan Road. We checked into our new hotel and decided to go out exploring. We went to the flower market on the edge of Chinatown near the river near Memorial Bridge. it was awesome! Walked around a bit more and found a different night market looked at great Asian craziness gifts. Sat to eat at a cart, it began to pour. Caught a taxi home. Decided to go out, went to the roof top bar because there was a guy singing and playing the guitar. Good atmosphere, everyone sang along. Made friends with people from Jakarta and a Thai woman and her German husband. She kept ordering buckets of drinks, so we all got pretty drunk, we went to a different club when the roof top bar closed. Danced until that club closed and then crashed literally next door at our new hotel!
Friday: Woke up a bit late, skyped with mom and sisters, went home Ainhoa was still in bed. The plan was to go explore Chinatown, so we set out walked for a long time. It was cloudy but not raining so perfect walking about weather. Saw the National Theatre so checked out what was playing. A show called Khon, actually a style of dance, the name is not so original. Usually about 800 Baht, we asked for a student discount and got it for 200 Baht. Nice! Walked/shopped/ate for the rest of the day. Another great soup cart! best coconut drink I've had in my life. Endless streets of small market stalls. Amulet traders. saw the show which was interesting... walked back it began to rain, I got kind of grumpy walking in the rain, but we eventually made it. Met up with our Indonesian friends and went to a beer garden close by. Toni sang all night and was really good. met the guys from the Netherlands, woman from Belgium and Woman from Thailand. trend of thai women with white men but not the other way around, what's up with that?
Saturday: woke up, got ready and went to the BK Lounge to meet up with Pad. She showed up and we walked like 5 blocks with her to where she had parked her car. Drove across the entire city to Pad's favorite restaurant. Not fancy, but extremely tasty!!! What she called a court menu. Apparently cooks who worked at the Palace would learn certain dishes not usually made outside of the Palace, but then would open up their own restaurants and take the recipes with them. It was the best food I've had on this trip. Hands down. I could marry the spicy coconut seafood soup. Another type of soup with egg yolks that had been boiled in pig's intestines for some reason. great dish of beef and Thai basil deep fried so the basil was like a crunchy chip. Some chicken skewers with sticky rice and a sweet sauce and then raw shrimp with garlic and chilies and cabbage on the side. Sprinkled it with lime like ceviche. When they turned pink, we devoured! For dessert Pad ordered 3 small treats of syrup and different fruits/jellies over ice. Very refreshing after a spicy meal and for the heat outside. Afterwards, she dropped us at the skytrain b/c she was going to a wedding!! We took the train to a huge outdoor market called JJ's Market. Like a flea mark with hundreds of little stalls in and outside, winding pathways through it all. Went into a consumerism comma and had the urge to get everything! Got one or two gifts, but then a dress and skirt for myself. That's all I would let myself get, I could have spent so much more there, it's not even funny. Then went to Siam Square, once again by skytrain. got off and walked straight into a lip synce dance performance. Harajuki style girls in front of us knew all the songs, so it must have been popular music just being danced to. We have no idea why... why not I guess. Walked around the malls in a daze, completely shopped out. Walked around a little bit but didn't make it too far before we decided our feet were too tired to continue. Took a tuk tuk home and walked straight to a Thai massage place. Great massage, then home to drop off stuff and grab computer to figure out how to get to Ayuttaha tomorrow and to skype cameron/ family. Now to try and sleep through the noise and heat of our ridiculous room!!
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