July 14th, 2018
July 14th, 2018
The girls were up early(ish) and ready for their 9:30am pick up for zip lining. They chose Dragon Flight. All set up by Tee. They had a lot of fun, even though it went slow because they got caught behind a large group (24). So every platform had quite a long wait. There were 49 platforms apparently, or that is what the souvenir T-shirt said 😁.
It cost 2,400 baht for two, so about $40 usd each and included lunch which was quite tasty apparently!
They were gone until almost 4 pm and during their day away, I managed to talk Troy into walking the moat with me. At 12:45pm, I saw on my Fitbit I had a grand total of 787 steps, so that just isn’t acceptable even by vacation standards, so a 4 mile walk around the Old City’s 1 mile square moat is just what could take care of that. Troy had missed the boat on securing toast and jam at the hotel in the morning (it is only available until 10am – no judgement 😳) so we stopped at the Baan Bakery, knowing full well that by 1 pm, the pickings are slim! True to form, this was the case, so we decided to carry on and see what we could find that appealed to us on our walk. We stopped at Loco Elvis which is kind of a big bumping place over by the Thapae Gate.
We have not eaten there before, but they claim to have exceptionally good authentic Mexican food (if one is to believe the signage). So we are on the hunt for nachos. We also decide to try their 99 baht margaritas. I had a classic and Troy had a mango margarita. Once you get past the first sip or two it grows on you. Alcohol just has a really nasty aftertaste here and I assume for 99 baht they are just using the cheap stuff. They were drinkable however, so I pushed through. We also found the nachos! They were good, not really what we were expecting (as usually is the case here) the chips where very thick and crunchy (vs thin crispy as we are accustomed to).
They had ‘sour cream’ drizzled on the top and some sort of cheese? Some beans. Anyway. They met the need. We also stopped at 7-11 and secured a magnum and cornet ice cream chaser 😉😉
Our timing was off however. When we left the hotel, it was sunny and hot, by the time we were done at Loco Elvis, the rain was starting. Didn’t seem too bad, more like a drizzle, so we (and when I say “we”, I mean “I made Troy”) carry on our trek around the moat, we had barely done 1/2 of one side before stopping for snacks. It did drizzle for another 1 mile maybe, then the clouds moved on, the sun came out and it was full sun and some nice bumped up humidity again. See, if you don’t like the weather, you just wait a few minutes and it will change. JUST LIKE HOME. The great news is by the time the walk was compete, we had secured our steps up to just shy of 13,000. So no guilt over anything now. Not that I have guilt anyway! Plus we knew we had the Saturday night market ahead of us still. When we got back to hotel, we got right into the pool while we waited for the girls to return from their adventure.
Once they did, they got themselves ice cream, because WHY NOT? Then rested up for a bit. We headed down to the market around 6pm and ate our way through the market. Not much we didn’t have…bbq chicken, mojito mocktail, chicken gyoza, French fries, chicken on a stick, kiwi & mango shake, corn and banana waffles, mango and sticky rice, other things I just can’t remember…..
Wrapped up the night around 7:30pm. The girls have their cooking school in the morning with an 8:20-8:50 am pick up.
