Bangkok: Sept 28 - Oct 23 / Sept 22 - Sept 27 / Sept 11 - Sept 21 /

October 23 2009 - Eric: Ok, we haven't had good internet in ages, but here is the last video we made in Bangkok at the Science Museum on the 14th. We will have a bunch of huge updates coming if we manage to get our hands on a good connection.



October 15 2009 - Kyde:

5 Sense of Bangkok
Sight - Bangkok looks like movement. Everything is on the move from a huge coachroach making his way on the sidewalk to his next feast to huge groups of people cramming themselves onto a tiny khlong boat. You can constantly hear people getting around from the motorcycle taxis rarring to the millions of high heels clomping. We read that people move like water in Bangkok and we have plunged in!
Smell - Two s-words come to mind when thinking about the city, smog and sewage. Surprisingly, that is broken by occurances of the best smelling incense. Buddhism is wonderful, because if it wasn't for it there wouldn't be a good smelling open area! Side note: Chinatown smells like pepper and spice!
Sound - The sounds you hear most are transportation! The rar of the motorcycles, the honk of the taxis, the tv ads of the skytrains, the vibratious motors of the river ferries and khlong boats and the constant jabbering of the tuk tuk drivers might drive a person insane! Oddly enough, the metro provides a comforting quiet.
Feel - Bangkok has a ying-yang of sweat and air-conditioning. You spend an hour or so getting a nice sweat going and then pop into a 7-11 and it's like stepping into a convenient ice age! You can feel your beads freeze instantly.
Taste - Bangkok has knocked our tastebuds out! 98% of our meals have been spiced to perfect. I watch Eric each time he takes his first bite and he melts with every meal. I believe we have only had 3 meals which warranted a "that sucks" out of the over 200 in the past month. I'm not sure how to put these meals into words other than taste has been our favorite sensation of Bangkok and hopefully will continue as we venture on.

October 14 2009 - Eric: Kyde has been really sick for the past three days but is doing much better now. Our best guess is it was a intolerance for forien bacteria, but who knows we aren't doctors. Anyways, our amazing and kind landlady Naneen has allowed us to stay one additonal day in the apartment due to Kyde's illness, but we will be headed to Ayutthaya tomorrow. For now I'll leave you with this picture I took ages ago from the Skytower II in Bangkok showing the distance to other cities.



October 12 2009 - Kyde: We have come to the conclusion that it takes around 3 weeks to do all the touristy things in Bangkok. OUr last week has been lazy but enjoyable, until I got sick like Eric was weeks before. Here are some pictures from our adventures! Enjoy them!

The Metal Palace look pretty awesome during the day!



It looks spectacular at night!



This picture means exactly what you think...



It is not odd to see a motorcycle take the far lane, also known as the sidewalk, but it's pretty striking when you see a bus on the sidewalk. It still makes sense when you realize you're in Bangkok



The electrical lines are scary here, especially when they are head level!



At one of the malls, they were advertising a Balloon Art Expo. We went to check it out, and it turned out they were doing timed challenges. This dragon is made completely from balloons.



Marilyn's portriat looked very cool!



Eric and this pig were devilishly plotting!



The booze wagon was delicious! I ordered a Harvy Wall Banger and Eric has his first Sex on the Beach.



I got some chips which were Scallop flavoured which was weird and then they were shaped like this. They were actually pretty good!



On our way home from the Skytrain, we always see a guy making crepe-like treats. They aren't as soft as crepes. They are cooked to have a crunchy batter exterior and whatever you want on the inside. I got chocolate and sprinkles! It was very good!



We also found that Jesse is making bras here!



We decided to travel around the city. We managed to travel on 4 modes of transport and there was a bit of walking! We had our first adventure on trains here. We only went one stop on it and the guy that sold us the ticket laughed pretty hard with us when we found out it was only 4 baht! I worked up a little map to show our path and all the types of transport we took!



October 11 2009 - Eric: Here's a video of us exploring north-western Bangkok followed by the rules of the Metro.





October 10 2009 - Eric: More videos! First is our sugar coma video, then we saw a small music festival thing outside of a mall and made two videos explaining what was going on. The kids trying to "skank" in the last video were hilarious!







October 9 2009 - Eric: More videos! One from yesterday morning's motercycle taxi ride and the other from the Boozewagon.





October 8 2009 - Evening - Eric: Here is a couple of new videos from yesterday. First video is just us walking around near our apartment on the way to the Skytrain. Notably EVERY SINGLE THING in the video is just insane by american standards, but it all makes sense here; especially after being here for a while. The second is a video of either a pet shop or a grocery store, sometimes it's hard to tell them apart. Be excited, tomorrow I should have a vide up of a ride on a motercycle taxi!





October 8 2009 - Morning - Eric: Here's a new video from last night.



October 6 2009 - Eric: Here is a couple of videos.





October 3 2009 - Kyde: So, yes, it has been almost a week (minus a few hours) since the last written update. Don't get your panties in a wad, I'll try to make it worth the wait with some awesome pictures and some gross details! Lets get started!

Monday (09-28-09) We decided to get out and do something we had been trying to do for a week or so now, which is go to Jim Thompson's house. You might be wondering who Jim Thompson is... so I'll explain, badly. Jim Thompson was a man who after an assorted early life landed in Thailand and was very interested in textiles. He was introduced to the silk being produced here and in return presented dyes to the weavers. These two things, silk and dye, made an explosion in the textile market via Vogue magazine in the late 1940s. He lived a very wealthy life and one day went into the jungle in Malaysia and never turned up again. So, you might then wonder, why do you care about Jim Thompson? Well, with his wealth he traveled around Asia and collected art, pottery and teak houses. Teak houses, the traditional Thai house, are usually small, but Jim Thompson needed a bigger house so he crammed six of them together with a little glue and a couple nails. We went pretty excited to see this much talked about "mansion," but were kinda disappointed. The house was cool and you could see many of his possessions, but there was really no spectacle for it and neither of us felt we got our baht worth. I actually got in half price because I was under 25 years old! It was cool to see, but I wouldn't say it's a must see. We did get a free english tour and it was very interesting getting to converse and listen to a native Thai speak english.

We left Jim Thompson's to find food and landed at a street vendor where Eric got sweet and sour chicken, which was so much better than anything I've ever ingested with the same name in the states! I was jealous of his food, so much that I have no idea what I got. After our stomachs were happy, Eric wanted to show me the Khlong boats he had visited the other day. We sat over a bridge and watched one, Eric told me since it wasn't rush hour things were a lot less hectic. We decided to take the boat in the direction of Wat Arun. Khlong boats are a really weird phenomenon, unlike most of their transport which kind of caters to your eyes, this one doesn't. You get in a skinny boat and there really is no view other than the canal walls. It does feel very fast since you are in such an enclosed area. We weren't sure how far the boat would take us or even where it would drop us off, but when everyone else got off the boat we took that as the hint that we needed to get the fuck off too. We wandered up to the streets to figure out where you were. Guidebook in hand, we tried to locate ourselves (which isn't very easy since our book isn't the best) but tuk tuk drivers pounce once they see that you're white and they pounce hard if you have your book open. We honestly have to strategically plan out when to open our book. We'll either get behind something where the tuk tuk drivers can't see or approach us or we'll plan ahead on a boat/sky train or in a restaurant. I know that you are told that tuk tuk drivers are annoying, but some of the assholes are fucking relentless. They get to the point where if they want our attention they will touch Eric and that's not cool. If we are ignoring you to the point where you feel that you have to get our attention by touching one of us, you're gonna get a pretty evil look. So, we had no idea where we were, but we did manage to get away from the tuk tuk drivers by just picking a direction and going. A couple hours later we found our way to a boat which would take us to Wat Arun. Upon our arrival at the Wat we were met with annoyances, unproper clothing choices and a sudden downpour. We decided not to go to enter the Wat and we'd come back another day.

Our next destination was food and we decided to consult our guidebook for it, and once again were unable to experience one of their food reccomendations (keep in mind we have been here for 2 weeks and have tried almost daily). We got to the restaurant and I asked the lady for a menu. Eric and I both noted her disgusted look as she headed into the place and talked with a co-worker. She brought out a menu after talking for a few minutes. We were looking at it when the other co-worker came up to me and said "(word I couldn't understand) food." Since I heard the word food and she was pointing to the menu, I said yes. After going around in circles for a few seconds, she managed to associate a sign on the wall with what she was trying to say which told us that they were closing in ten minutes. So, I asked a lady for a menu, she walks away, bitches and brings me a menu. Then her buddy comes up and jabbers at me and finally points at a sign which says their closing time. You know what would have solved this? It's not being able to speak the language, but having the first lady that I talked to point at the sign. It's confusing situations like this which characterize Bangkok for me. It's hard to sometimes put them into words, but this is one of the many.

We headed back to the boat since it only runs til 7 pm and we didn't want to get stuck with a hefty taxi fare. The boat drops us off near the sky train in an area called Riverside. We decided to investigate what Riverside had to offer in the food department. We walked for what seemed like a half and hour and there were only 3 food joints. They were not in our price range, but Eric had noted a "Food Court" back where we started our journey. To me, seeing the words "Food Court" means they are catering to westerners and they plan on making shitty food for outrageous prices. I was completely wrong about this place. It's pretty much a bunch of seats next to a line of booths that are rented out by Thai cooks. We found the one sign with English on it saying "Pad Thai" and figure out how to get chicken for me and shrimp for Eric. I'm not keen on pad thai or rice noodles, so I wasn't excited about the meal but I was extremely hungry. Let me just put it bluntly, I thought the pad thai was FABULOUS! Eric said it wasn't amazing, but it was the first time that I was happy to have ordered it!

After that we headed back to the apartment. I have been sleeping with that log of a pillow for a while. At first it was nice, because it was a stark difference from normal, but it started to cause sleeping issues because I couldn't get comfortable. Eric was quite awesome and said I could use his pillow from heaven and he'd use the log. Sweetest boy ever! I slept very well that night!

Tuesday (09-29-09) We slept in because that log of a pillow ruined Eric's sleep. I think that if I wanted to sleep for 24 hours straight, I might be able to do it. Something about not having anything that you must do opens up that area of your brain that believes you haven't slept enough in the past couples years and a few hours more wouldn't hurt at all!

Our most important plan of the day... find a Build-A-Bear! My ankles are tingling just thinking about it. We were told there was a Bear factory in Central World, but looked and even asked a security gaurd, but couldn't find it. I did some research and went to the Build-A-Bear website and told it to tell me about the Thailand branches. That took me from the English site to the some-parts-are-in-english-but-mostly-everything-is-in-thai website. So, if you aren't very internet literate and lack patience and really want to go to Build-A-Bear in Thailand, you better learn how to read Thai or you're screwed! I managed to grab a few words and piece a couple things together which led me to believe there might be a factory in a building near Central World called Chidlom Central. It's all a bit confusing, but this is in the name of Bears, people! We headed over and found the factory with ease. I wanted so badly to build an owl, but we don't know exactly how much it would cost to ship it home or whether it's worth the hassle. You tell me, should I get this Owl?

Our next mission was to see our last movie at the international film festival. The movie is called "Every Little Step." It is a documentary about trying out for the broadway play "Chorus Line." If you are even remotely interested in theater or documentaries it was a very good movie. You got to see from start to finish how they cast the whole show and what the people who audition have to go through and it's a lengthy try out. I've never been very interested in being in theater and after seeing how many hoops they jump through I'm still satisfied with just being a spectator. The movie shows how some people crumble and others go so much farther than expected. We left the mall and found a fun place to take pictures! Can you find us in this picture?



Wednesday (09-30-09) Eric and I have been together everyday for an entire month (minus a about 8 hours tops). Believe me, I'm driving him bonkers! Anyways, we decided some time apart would ease some of our bickering. I decided to relax at the apartment and watch "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels." It was much better than I had remembered it. I downloaded the first episode of season 3 of Six Feet Under. Sorry Jenn, but I got bored and couldn't wait. I'm dying for you to get those discs! Need to continue!!! A bath and some reading made my day!

Eric went walking. Mega walking for miles. He went on a huge path around Limphini Park and on his way back home got this video of the free aerobics offered at the park at night time.



Thursday (10-01-09) had an interesting morning. We used a different laundry place. Instead of being able to pick up our clothes at the same time on the next day, they said we would have to wait til 5 pm. Lame. On top of that, we gave them the same amount of clothes as the last two times at our other place and they charged us twice as much. Live and learn. We will be returning to our old faithful next clothing cycle! So, we woke up this morning with annoying clothing issues. I brought a tank top with a built in (crappy) bra. It's normally okay to wear, but in the heat with the thin cotton material, I look like I just took a bath in sweat! Eric only had the pants and boxers he wore the day before, so he had washed them by hand and hung them to dry. The pants were still on the damp side and he refused to wear them. We hung them up outside and to our surprise it was the coldest day we have felt since August. There must have been a mid morning rain which cooled everything, It had to be in the upper 60s (HEAVEN!). We have been so used to upper 90s that I was pretty excited. These pants were not drying any faster outside and I ran through in my head how I was going to dry these pants so that Eric and I could both enjoy the weather. Could I use the microwave? Not sure the zippers and fabric would be okay with that. Is there anything hot in the apartment that I could use, not that I could think of. Then I remembered, while Eric was sick I took a chair out on the balcony with the A/C unit and it kept blowing hot air on me. It worked like a charm!

Considering there wasn't much of the touring day left, I just took a peek into the guidebook and randomly picked a place. The place advertised the largest golden buddah! I was pretty excited and we'd actually get to try out the metro for the first time. Our first stop was to find some food! We had gone down Soi 16 many times and noticed a place called FoodLand and figured it would solve the hunger issue.

We walked in and sat at a Waffle House kind of bar stool seating arrangement. The menus were laid out and the waiter was on us right when we got in the door. In the states, you would order your drink, and the waiter would come back. We told the guy what drinks we wanted, he told the lady on the other side of the bar and she got them for us. We made our decisions for food and looked around. The waiter was no where to be found. When he showed up, Eric made eye contact and we figured service was on its way. Moments later, a lady came over and shoved a piece of paper into a cup in front of us. I pulled out the paper and it was our tab for the drinks. We sat there wondering... will we be able to get some food. We have come to the conclusion that you need to get your whole order ready before ordering. Finally, another guy came up and took our food order, HOORAY! I got roasted pork which fell apart at the slightest touch, it was great! Eric got sweet and sour chicken and it was just as good as the time before.

The metro was almost nicer than the sky train. The view was not as good obviously, but there were more seats open. It was definitely a much sleeper form of transport considering there were a lot of people napping. We headed over to the Wat containing the golden buddah. When we finally got our bearings from the crazy road system we landed in, we found the Entrance to Chinatown!



We found the Wat, but I can honestly tell you that I don't know if we ever found the golden buddah. We searched around and finally gave up. If you ever find the golden buddah, let me know! We thought Chinatown was worth a walk and we found few cool things.

I saw a card and invitation shop and it made me wonder if I could get a job there!



We happened upon a miniture pincher-chihuahua mix and a labrador-weiner dog mix in the same area!



This is what a Chinatown Soi looks like.



Meet Russell, a Bangkok Bulldog!



We headed back on the metro and looked for a place to eat. We spotted a sign that said Pizza Hut, and even though both of us are big fans of the place, we were jonesing for something that tasted like home. We got a medium half pepperoni and half pineapple dish! It was much better than I thought it was going to be. Then, I ended up in a very confusing bathroom incident. Too hard to write out, but bathrooms can be pretty confusing here. I ended up visiting another one a few minutes later to see how I fucked up, still clueless.

On our way to an ice cream shop which advertised Adult Ice Cream, we noticed something a little shocking since we come from Virginia and traffic never seems this tight.



The ice cream was tasty and we toasted to our first month of adventures! I got something with rum ice cream, japanese custard and lots of whipped cream. Eric got their Christmas Favorite. His was a little tart, but once it was all mixed together it was pretty good. The picture shows all the different types of alcholic ice creams they had. Elizabeth, they have Midori Sour! Odd things we saw while we were there, they have 50% during certain hours of the day and they have all you can drink (which includes non-ice cream drinks) for 599 baht. I did the calculation and it pays for itself in three drinks! Might not be a bad idea and I'm sure how this place is in business.





Friday (10-02-09) started off with possibly the world's biggest curb.



We took the sky train and ferry to the Thornburi area. I had read about a forensic science museum and I thought it sounded pretty interesting. We got off the boat and walked down the road until we started this video.



Eric said he might not want to go to the museum, and I guess I should have figured that if he wasn't interested then there migth be something wrong with the place. We walked through a hospital compound to get to the place. Here's how I explained the place to Mam:

(10:19:09 PM) leelelurah: so, you walk in
(10:19:24 PM) leelelurah: and on your right are a bunch of skulls that had something horrific happen to them
(10:19:44 PM) leelelurah: and then there are a bunch of pictures of people that have been shot, stabbed and had other horrific things happen
(10:20:00 PM) leelelurah: ever seen what it looks like when someone is in a train accident?
(10:20:09 PM) leelelurah: I have recall the picture now, and it's pretty nasty
(10:20:11 PM) WT2HVFN: no
(10:20:23 PM) leelelurah: to the left, there is a display about tsunamis
(10:20:43 PM) leelelurah: which was pretty interesting til you turn the corner and they have made a display of life sized people cleaning up the bodies
(10:20:46 PM) leelelurah: weird
(10:21:07 PM) WT2HVFN: doesnt sound like something that should be open to the public
(10:21:16 PM) leelelurah: you would never see this in the states
(10:21:18 PM) leelelurah: and then you go further into the room and on your left are 3 bodies standing up in boxes
(10:21:28 PM) leelelurah: the first body says "mummified body"
(10:21:42 PM) leelelurah: which is interesting, what happens to a mummified body
(10:21:57 PM) leelelurah: the second guy above him it says "murderer rapist"
(10:22:06 PM) WT2HVFN: did u take pictures
(10:22:07 PM) leelelurah: "life sentence"
(10:22:13 PM) leelelurah: you weren't allowed to take pictures
(10:22:30 PM) leelelurah: and in all honesty, I don't really want to recollect that much, but I do want ot explain to people
(10:22:47 PM) leelelurah: the third body was a guy who was a serial killer back in the day
(10:22:51 PM) WT2HVFN: could u tell if they were asian
(10:22:54 PM) leelelurah: he killed 30 kids and ate them
(10:23:06 PM) WT2HVFN: yuck
(10:23:08 PM) leelelurah: there was a living picture of the 3rd guy
(10:23:10 PM) leelelurah: and that was weird
(10:23:28 PM) leelelurah: but you couldn't tell ethnicity from the remains
(10:23:37 PM) leelelurah: the bodies are seriously just decomposing there
(10:23:39 PM) leelelurah: it was weird
(10:23:56 PM) leelelurah: and next to those bodies are cabinets full of boxed dead snakes
(10:24:04 PM) leelelurah: like they are perserved
(10:24:40 PM) WT2HVFN: odd
(10:24:47 PM) leelelurah: and in this area the walls are pretty much covered by babies both before birth and after
(10:24:54 PM) leelelurah: and it tells what happened to them and why they didn't live
(10:25:11 PM) leelelurah: like car crash caused an abortion and I couldn't bring myself to read what happened to the babies that died after birth
(10:25:27 PM) leelelurah: there was seriously a kid that was about the age of 1 1/2 perserved
(10:25:35 PM) leelelurah: it was shocking
(10:25:41 PM) leelelurah: then you enter a library of body parts
(10:25:47 PM) WT2HVFN: sounds depressing...
(10:25:50 PM) leelelurah: and most of them are showing you like accidents
(10:25:58 PM) leelelurah: the babies were pretty depressing
(10:26:16 PM) leelelurah: in the body part area it would show you like a stab wound to the heart which was kinda cool
(10:26:27 PM) leelelurah: it is digestible if you are able to take the person out of it
(10:26:34 PM) leelelurah: if you can see that person, it fucks with your head
(10:27:05 PM) leelelurah: we got to see the accidents and then the smoking lung and alcohol liver
(10:27:13 PM) WT2HVFN: dad would really like it there
(10:27:26 PM) leelelurah: if dad likes it in there, then he's a much stronger person than I am
(10:27:43 PM) leelelurah: I told eric he was not allowed to try and scare me, because I was on the verge of scream the entire time
(10:30:35 PM) leelelurah: we got to see a head split in half
(10:30:39 PM) leelelurah: which was pretty interesting
(10:30:57 PM) leelelurah: like right down the middle, so you could see the brain, nasal area mouth throat
(10:31:15 PM) leelelurah: but you could also see the face on the outside and that was disturbing, because the eyes were still open
(10:31:16 PM) WT2HVFN: ok enough

That's the general gist of the place. As I stared at the photos of real people with their wrists slit, stab wounds and gun shot inflictions, I wondered if I could get a refund since I'd only traveled 20 feet into the museum. It was pretty fucking creepy. I found that I have a personal proximity to dead people. I couldn't get within three feet of the bodies. I could get closer to the body parts which didn't have exterior features. I've disected a lot of animals back in the day, but it's especially apparent that I will not be in the medical field... EVER! People, this shit was freaky! I'm very happy we ate before we went in!

We headed to Wat Arun! It was the best Wat we've visited thus far. It looks amazing, we got to climb on it, there is a great view, we don't have to take our shoes off (theft of my only pair of shoes worries me) and we can just lay on the ground and stare up at it! Here's the video of our experience!



Here are our pictures from the Wat! We found this poof outside of the Wat and did a photo shoot! This picture came out pretty amazingly.



We are really HERE!



Updside down!



Tried to outrun the timer and lost!



Don't look down!



Great view!



Wat Arun was definitely my favorite!



Still missing us?



Couldn't outrun the timer, again!



While laying down and staring up to the top of the Wat, we made a friend, Scott. He was pretty cool and laid down with us which shows that we weren't that crazy, because several people joined in. We relax for a good half an hour and chatted about places Scott and been and where we would like to go (looking forward to Hong Kong now). We invited him to come along for dinner and told him about our experiences over the past two weeks in Bangkok. It felt a little odd to explain our adventures and realize that we actually have a little Bangkok know-how! It feels good! We parted ways with Scott after seeing him off on a motorcycle taxi, hope he made it home all right.

Saturday (10-03-09) We started off pretty lazy. We had some breakfast and did some interneting and showering. We watched our much anticipated Peep Show episode and had lunch. We headed out to our first successful guidebook-suppported restaurant visit to a place called The Deck. You're probably tired of hearing about Wat Arun, but tough. The Deck is directly across the river from Wat Arun and amazingly the sunset is perfectly positioned! We watched the sun go down and the Wat light up.



We ordered a Rambutan shake and it was as delicious as we had hoped. Once again, our guide did not really put things into perspective. They said the meals were relatively cheap at the Deck, but it was far from our price range.

We headed back to the Food Court we had visited earlier in the week and forced ourselves to go to a vendor that didn't have english on their sign. Eric did a great job using a picture to tell the lady what dish we wanted and he even managed to get a fried egg on top. He works magic! I managed to get us a bag with soda in it! I do good work! Dinner was delicious, but I had to take breaks from the spice. I'm working on getting my spice level up, so bring it on!



On our way back to the apartment, we got some of the most delicious candies. Everything gummy here is much softer than back home, and they put sugar all over these guys! That wasn't enough though, I had to get ice cream from 7-11 too!



Today (10-04-09) I stayed up very late (4 AM) last night writing out our update. I haven't been able to sleep very well, so I made the most of my insomnia. I knew we had plans to go to the biggest weekend market here in the morning. I did my best to get up and get started at 10:30. We showered and kicked hunger with a banana. We found out there is a metro stop that is a good couple minutes closer than the sky train we have been walking to. And when you are walking 15 minutes in the blazing heat, cutting out 5 minutes can mean all the difference!

We got to the market and our stomachs were ready to move on from our banana breakfast. We found a place advertising soup and rice for 50 baht. After being confused by the menu, a very nice man who spoke excellent english explained what we needed to do for the lunch special. We needed to look at a few dishes, pick one and hope we weren't picking some type of weird seafood. We both managed to get chicken in different japanese concoctions. The food was okay, but for the second time we managed to get cold food. We got some miso soup with it and thank goodness that was warm or it would have been weird. Eric ordered some Iced Tea which was out of this world. It was oddly, and deliciously, thick! Not sure how they did it, but it was really good.

We headed into the market and decided to split up, so we could wander and let our eyes take us where ever. I ended up in the clothing area and was very interested in getting a shirt. There are tons of sellers, but many of the places weren't selling anything that tickled my fancy. I ended up heading back to the first place that caught my eye and got two pretty cool shirts. Overall, for my day, I spent $7. I got two pretty nicely screen printed shirts, a foot long bag of cotton candy and a regular sized water. Beat that!



Eric's managed to find some pretty cool things on his wander about the market. He saw an asain blue grass band, no joke, with a guy seriously playing the spoons. He also saw some kids break dancing in the middle of a serious dance off. Once we met back up, he took me over to the art section. The paintings in this area were outstanding. If I ever want to decorate my house, I'm going to a market like this. We didn't get any pictures. I felt some of the artists might not want there shit digitized if I wasn't going to pay for it. If you come to Bangkok and are interested in art, you have to come to JJ Market!

Break Dancing



The Blue Mountain Brothers



We headed to the park which is right outside the market for a little relaxation after spending a few hours in which can only be best described as a walking sauna. A lady was selling cotton candy, and I was very happy to finally end a craving I have had for a while. We went to a carnival by the courthouse in VA for 4th of July, and I wanted to get cotton candy. I went over to the ATM and got out some cash. This cotton candy was worth the 3.50 surcharge! I headed up to a stand and waited for about 10 minutes only to find out they were out. We walked around to almost every place, NO COTTON CANDY LEFT! Welp, 3 months later and a plane trip around the world and look whose got the cotton candy now! YEAH!!

We walked around the park and found something which we no consider common place for Thai parks, they have exercise areas. And I don't mean like just pull bars and stuff. The communities really are interested in having their people healthy. Makes you wonder about America. Here's the equipment we found...



Yeah, the stuff we played on might look cheesy, but it works well and it encourages the citizens to take care of themselves. People aren't just coming over to play around on the stuff like we were, they were working out. Around the corner was a serious outdoor gym. With real equipment and weights. I don't know who the people were out there in 90 degree weather working out, but they were!

We managed to find some bad food at the market. Our dinner was not very good and I was disappointed we actually had to pay for it, but I don't know how to say "That was shit" in Thai. Regardless, we filled our bellies and that's worth some baht. We hit the metro to head back home and got some interested fruit on the way back. Not sure what it is, but it has the texture of the kiwi but not as much flavor. It looks pretty cool though!



We are currently enjoying our odd fruit (which is Dragon Fruit) and getting ready to see if Heroes will every get better. I also just realized that Dexter will air tonight in the states and I can download it and watch it tomorrow! Jenn get ready for another e-mail!

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