Flying through Bangkok
Trip Start
Sep 15, 2006
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20
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Trip End
??? ??, 2007
Bangkok,
Thailand
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Big Budda's Watching You....
We hit the main temples of course, then walked for a ways down the riverfront, ducking and weaving into tiny alleyways. The river was way up, walls of sandbags protecting the main streets, and in many of the buildings, water was seeping in through the cracks in the floorboards. We passed one restaurant where the diners were all dry in the back, but Chef was out front cooking in ankle deep water, with several boards hastily thrown up as a bridge for more customers...
For lunch, we finally tried Papaya salad. Mmmmm... wish we'd had this earlier, we could have been getting this all along!
... and the rest of the day was taken up with shopping. Cierra had heard about a great market to buy cheap clothes in, but unfortunately most of the clothes went out of style around 1982. Cierra doesn't give up easily, however, and she persisted for three hours until she'd found two skirts that she liked. When she said that she wanted to keep going, one of my eyeballs rolled so far back into my head that I actually caught a glimpse of my brain, asleep at the wheel after shopping overload. Cierra took the hint and we packed it in for the day.
Next, we wrap up our Asian adventures with Singapore....
