Laurie's World

So woke up at 2:30 am, then was in and out until I gave up at 4:30 am and just decided to get up and blog. I know i will regret this tonight when I can’t keep my eyes open past 7pm….but not sure what to do about it at this point. So here I am!

We got a taxi from airport to out hotel in Bangkok yesterday. Went smoothly. I may not have mentioned I stretched myself a little this year when I booked the room in Bangkok. Not stretched like a booked a room at the Meridian….I went the other direction and booked a room at a place on Khao San road AKA “backpacker road”. It was $21 a night and that is not much for Bangkok….when we we here we were in 2009, our rooms were in the $50 plus a night range and they were no great shakes. So there was potential for this place to not meet my needs, but it had good reviews on Agoda….so I decided to give it a whirl. And….drum roll please…..it is just fine. Super basic, no fridge or TV, but it has great A/C and a room safe and it is clean. So for $21, I’ll take it! And I love the street it is on…..makes me feel young….I could get a tattoo, a massage, a hooka (don’t know what that is, but it was pointed out to me), shopping a plenty and more food than we could possibly want. Plus music and those little fish that eat the dead skin off the bottom your feet!!!

So we literally dumped our stuff, hit the bank machine and the 7-11 for water…..had some street Pad Thai, then started walking. We walked to the grand palace (did not go in as it was getting too close to closing time), but then went to Wat Pho where we had the opportunity to borrow some very fashionable lime green robes to cover up…

And Wat Arun (also some nice covering up) had to give a selfie a try : ))

There were some VERY steep stairs that we had to go up (and then down) to get tot the top of this temple, wonderful view, just hoping there are too many up skirts shots of me out there now…..whose idea was the dress?

Troy just informed me our route was 16 km yesterday, some of that was on the boat….so we walked about 5 miles…pretty decent first day in my opinion. We had Indian food for supper! Wow!!!!!! Very good, as we were starving!! It would have been good even if we had not done all that walking.

Stopped for a foot massage….Erica’s first….won’t be the last!!!! Slept through a good chunk of that massage : ((

Well, off to get breakfast shortly….we booked a trip to Ayuttaya today and they pick us up at 6:30 am!! More on that later…..

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