Bangkok = Home #2...who knew
Trip Start
Aug 31, 2008
1
15
27
Trip End
??? ??, 2009
Bangkok,
Thailand
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Ahhh home!
So we have been here since we last chatted. Got in from Ko Samet and pretty much set up shop for 10 days. People will think we are crazy, and maybe we are, but I would not trade the last 10days for anything. Some of the most fun times of the trip by far. I had to recover from whatever random sickness gripped my soul. Recovered just in time to meet up with two good friends from Nanaimo, Mike and Daryl who were fresh off the airplane. We showed them what this town has to offer. The three days we hung with them can be summarized as followed.
Night- Introduced them to our street side bucket ladies. Sat in mini plastic chairs. Went to a really wicked awesome disco. Danced danced danced.
Day- Tuk tuk-ed it to the weekend market. HEAVEN. Absolute heaven. The biggest most amazing market to date in Asia. Everything that you can possibly imagine. Crazy clothes, garden stuff, food, puppies, army fatigues, camping stuff. Everything. We spent the day cruising around. I finally found a female sized David Bowie T-shirt. Headed back and
Night- Yelled at Franklin every 10minutes at dinner to "Go away". He would listen and scurry into the gutter. But he was always curious. Rats always are. Ping Pong show #2. I got to throw balloons (aka targets...)
Day- Siam Paragon Aquarium. Shark tunnel! Little baby turtles. Expensive entertainment. Massage....wow the massage. So cheap and so wonderful. It becomes an addiction.
Night- Bucket ladies. New UK friends. Teaching rose girls how to play "Bear, Ninja, Hunter". Daryl falling in love with a frog lady (these tribe ladies with no teeth who try and sell these wooden frogs that make rabbit sounds). He ended up buying 3 for 300 baht. Proud of himself until the next lady came along and offered him 4 frogs for 100 baht. Ha.
Day- cant recall anything special. Oh had good sushi, then a water fight in the down pour (which really just consisted of us kicking puddles at Nadia). Sent the boys to the bus so they could go to Ko Phi Phi.
Sleep.
Recovered just in time to go get my brother and Kris from the airport. The Bangkok tour starts once again...
Great to see Chris and Kris. Love showing "freshies" the ways of the backpacker. Last night was Halloween here. I was a pirate, Nadia was Captain Canada, and Kris and Chris were ping pong players (ha....ha). We had some dinner then moved on to our buckets ladies for some more introductions. Watched the insanity of Khao San rd on Halloween go by. Some great costumes. Thais seem to like dressing up. Went to a disco then some late night schnitzel and another rooftop bar. Great Halloween all together. No trick or treating though, as we figured we would get more tricks in Bangkok than treats...
Some other memorable moments from Bangkok Round #3
-the tattoo convention outside the big mega mall. Families and old people sitting and watching some "dancers" in lingerie "dance" on stage while tattoo artists inked people all around. The next day they had a Dentist convention with little girls dancing on the stage in traditional costumes....
-losing Nadia on Khao San for approx. 10 min only to find her with a new piercing
- Me eating lunch in a fairly nice restaurant when something scratches on my foot. I calmly ask Nadia to look under then table and check out the cat. At first she sees nothing there...then the scream comes and we are up on the chairs. Nice fat rat on your foot for lunch anyone?
-Daryl taking a picture of about 15 very intoxicated Liverpool football fans. Cant figure out the camera so he decides to comment, "you know why this camera sucks? Because its from England!" We thought he was about to be shanked, but next thing you know he is in one of their huddles doing Liverpool chants and songs (?).
-Visa run to Cambodia which consisted of Nadia and I returning to the most rancid town ever (Poipet, Cambodia) to dip our toes across the border and get a fresh new 30 day Thai stamp. Lonnnnng day on a mini bus. Never fun as you may have already guessed.
-Shopping in pretty much any department store and listening to explicit rap music that has not been censored. Obviously the English is not getting across.
-me finally making friends with an old enemy...a 14 year old rose seller who only wears a shirt that says "Lets Shopping!!!" not Lets GO Shopping...she use to tell me to shut up, and she called Nadia a Lady Boy. But last week we put our differences aside and plotted to sell 100 baht roses to drunk Aussies. It worked and now we are best buds.
Pictures to come from the above mentioned.
So off we are again. This time with two (K)Chris' in tow. We leave tonight for the island of Ko Phi Phi (where they filmed the movie the Beach). Very excited. From there we go overland to Ko Tao and then back to our old Full Moon friend Ko Phangan. Once again please keep your fingers crossed for us and a semi comfortable 15 hour bus ride. Oh god Bus nights...my nemesis.
