July 24th, 2016
Monday
Every now and then we have a day where we do mostly nothing. Today qualifies as one of those days. I felt completely justified in sitting by the pool after moving rooms down to poolside room for a night. Kinda long story, but in order to five nights here at Baan ratchiangsaen, we had a room on second floor for three nights! Then we had to then we had to move to first floor by the pool for one Night, then tomorrow, we will move back to second f Night, then tomorrow, we will move Back to second for one more night. Somehow this hotel we love is very booked up and we couldn’t hGet 5 nights in the same room. I’m suspecting it has to do with a large Dutch?? Family that must have at least 5 rooms booked, and they are messing with my chi. They also have a way of taking up a LOT of space everywhere. I managed to secure myself a lounger by the pool but yet they swarmed out like locusts and took over the whole area, surrounded me with their Lays chips and pop and beer cans. Jeez!
Somehow I messed up and forgot to sunscreen today. I have been so vary careful with my super pasty white thighs that never see the light of day. So in the absence of sunscreen, I’ve now got two red thighs, along with other various tan lines. Shoooooot!!!
By supper time, I was craving a burger today. News flash…..as I’m usually so determined to only eat Thai food when I’m here. But a craving is a craving so Troy went on a mission to find me a burger (a really good burger). We walked to the NE corner of the moat to find ourselves at Classic Burger. Far and away the best burger I’ve had in Thailand! So good! 189baht ($5.75 usd) for a huge freshly made bacon cheese burger, fries and a coke lite. Can’t beat that! They had something called meat sauce, and the identifiable ketchup, mustard and mayo in the condiment tray. Troy investigated the meat sauce and determined it was 1000 island dressing. So I loaded up my burger and dug in. Really great meal. We will go back fir sure at least one more time before we leave. It was very quiet there, I hope they make a go of it and are there when we come back next year. They gave us a voucher girl a free combo, so that entices me even more! The had soft serve ice cream for 15baht too, but I was too full to indulge at that time. We did not see that they had a washroom, so we stopped at Burger King on way back to cafe and by then I had room, so we simply had to indulge in a soft serve from Burger King (for 20b)-overpriced I know 😉
We we spent the rest of the evening visiting with Tee and Ian. There was a group of people from Seattle area having supper there, two are teaching here at a language school (been here ~7 months) and the third was visiting them for ~10 days. She teaches 7th grade math back home. So AS always, we enjoy a good chat with others having these experiences.
