Thursday, December 23, 2004

I made it!

Yes, I made it sana e salva to Bangkok. Today is day three, and I am exhausted already. My flight arriving was two hours late, and I was dead after being seated near a Thai lady who spoke perfect Italian. All my good intensions disappeared once I got to teh hotel. I had planned dinner and a massage and a short walk around Silom ROad and Patpong. Gone, Gone and Gone. All I could do was shower, order room service and colapse in my bed. Needless to say, I was awake at 4am wondering what to do.
Day two was definetly more productive seeing as I was able to get out of the Hotel by 6:30 am, and thank goodness for that. I got lost around the trrrain station, lost in Chinatown, and lost in the veggie market. All was not lost though: I did find Chinatown eventually, I stumbled across a Catholic Church which was very pretty, I had my second breakfast on teh river at the Sheraton Orchid, and I finally did make it to my destination: the flower market. After having walk for hours I decided that a lovely massage at Wat Pho was exactly what I needed so off I went once more - this time though I knew how to get from the flower market to the Wat. After all that though once I was back at teh hotel all I could do after writing postcards on the roof terrace was to fall asleep. Again NO NIGHTLIFE!!!
Today I decided on a later start and a bit less wandering and a bit more culture. I took teh sky train to this lovely Palace outside the center where they show the history of the Kingdom from 2000BC to today. It is a donation from a Prince and it really was lovely, pity it was so empty, only another 4 people while I was there, and yet it is amazingly beautiful. Then I had to stop off at the Doll museum. Anyone who knows me well, knows I love to shop for mygodchildren adn I just couldn't resist a Thai Barbie outfit. It was soooo cool to actually see the factory and the workers making the dolls right in front of you. Finally to end my morning of culture I weent to the Erwan shrine and decided to do the rounds with teh other pilgrims: four prayers, four packs of insence, for garlands of flowers adn four candels, adn let's not forget the four packets of gold leaf. Well, lets hope Erwan listened and 2005 is better than 2004. If not, well at least I got to watch Thai dancing at the shrine. Enough culture for one day, I am know in a mall and shopping till I dropping, and that will be soon. Will keep you up to date if I finally make it to see Bangkok by night.

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