Sunday, November 23, 2008

The land of smiles...

Sooooo Im in Bangkok!
Katie and Noah came and got me at the airport and took me back to the hotel on koh san road... tiny little room with a very interesting bathroom. We went out and danced and had some pad thai... for less than 1 Us dollar. SOO great!
Bangkok is phenomenal...its so different in every way. There are so many people everywhere, it smells, the taxis are BRIGHT pink, everyone is a crazy driver, there are men driving motor bikes with huge carts somehow attached to the front of them weaving between traffic, tuk tuks, food carts, stray cats and dogs, pictures of the King everywhere, orchids, temples....
amazing.
Everyone is very nice, the food is delicious, we all got 1/2 hour thai massages today for 100 B (2.50 usd?) which were so amazing.
We saw the Grand Palace today and walked around town for quite some time. In one of the temples there was a gigantic reclining Buddah which was about 50 meters long...GOLD!!! Just took my breath away.
Me, Katie and Noah all got matching fisherman pants (we ARE a team!), and Im making mental notes for all the Christmas presents i will bring back ;)

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