April 25th, 2010
Bangkok, Thailand
Day 3 was upon us before we knew it and there we were gorging ourselves on the breakfast buffet we had become such fans of. After breakfast we headed out to Bang Phli to visit my village and school-it was really fun to get to show off where I’d been spending the majority of my time for the past few months and I think Mom and Sue had fun putting a picture to the stories. It was funny seeing their reactions to the construction on the road to school and the NASA-rocket ship sound my ceiling fan made. We strolled around in the heat after meeting P. Pen and made our way to P. Jiep (Smoothie Lady)—Mom and Sue are such good sports as I’m not sure there are many moms who would be excited walking around in the midday Thai heat. After a brief look through the gates at home we hopped in a taxi and made our way to Chatuchak (JJ Market) for an afternoon of shopping and people watching.
Per usual the place was an absolute zoo filled with every person, thing and animal one could imagine. I had to take them through to the animal section where we ooohed and aahed at the squirrels in frilly dresses and the miniature puppies and kittens wrestling in their pens. We made our way through the maze of stalls and vendors and were able to pick up some souvenirs before reaching our literal boiling point and heading to the outside world for a cool drink and a nice stool. The people watching at JJ is probably the best Asia has to offer—for those of you familiar with the MN State Fair (and how much I love it) it’s like sitting on a bench and sitting open-mouthed at all the, uh, interesting people walking past. I had a pretty hilarious time explaining the concept of the ladyboy to Mom and Sue and we had some fun trying to pick them out of the crowd. Our favorite spectacle, though, was a funkily dressed woman and her Chihuahua who was dressed to the nines; it was wearing a studded denim jacket with cut off jean shorts, a bling bling collar and 4 little denim Chuck Taylors to top it all off. Maybe it was the heat, but we couldn’t stop laughing especially when Sue snapped a shot of the ordeal! It reminded us of the time I was studying abroad in Spain and the two of them came to visit and Soup asked a crotchety old woman if she could take a picture because she reminded her of someone!
That evening we went on a wild goose to book airline tickets for the following day when we would be heading off to Krabi for a relaxing beach holiday. Day 3: Success.
Bangkok, Thailand
Day 3 was upon us before we knew it and there we were gorging ourselves on the breakfast buffet we had become such fans of. After breakfast we headed out to Bang Phli to visit my village and school-it was really fun to get to show off where I’d been spending the majority of my time for the past few months and I think Mom and Sue had fun putting a picture to the stories. It was funny seeing their reactions to the construction on the road to school and the NASA-rocket ship sound my ceiling fan made. We strolled around in the heat after meeting P. Pen and made our way to P. Jiep (Smoothie Lady)—Mom and Sue are such good sports as I’m not sure there are many moms who would be excited walking around in the midday Thai heat. After a brief look through the gates at home we hopped in a taxi and made our way to Chatuchak (JJ Market) for an afternoon of shopping and people watching.
Per usual the place was an absolute zoo filled with every person, thing and animal one could imagine. I had to take them through to the animal section where we ooohed and aahed at the squirrels in frilly dresses and the miniature puppies and kittens wrestling in their pens. We made our way through the maze of stalls and vendors and were able to pick up some souvenirs before reaching our literal boiling point and heading to the outside world for a cool drink and a nice stool. The people watching at JJ is probably the best Asia has to offer—for those of you familiar with the MN State Fair (and how much I love it) it’s like sitting on a bench and sitting open-mouthed at all the, uh, interesting people walking past. I had a pretty hilarious time explaining the concept of the ladyboy to Mom and Sue and we had some fun trying to pick them out of the crowd. Our favorite spectacle, though, was a funkily dressed woman and her Chihuahua who was dressed to the nines; it was wearing a studded denim jacket with cut off jean shorts, a bling bling collar and 4 little denim Chuck Taylors to top it all off. Maybe it was the heat, but we couldn’t stop laughing especially when Sue snapped a shot of the ordeal! It reminded us of the time I was studying abroad in Spain and the two of them came to visit and Soup asked a crotchety old woman if she could take a picture because she reminded her of someone!
That evening we went on a wild goose to book airline tickets for the following day when we would be heading off to Krabi for a relaxing beach holiday. Day 3: Success.
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