THAILAND HONEYMOON

Nov 7

It's 7:50AM here, and just got off an overnight train (good sleep!!!) from Bangkok to here, Surac Tahni!

The trip is awesome so far, Dan and I met up with our friend Keith when we arrived at the Bangkok airport (from edmonton- the guy who sang at our wedding) late night. We took a taxi into town and found a nice "posh" hotel. The bathrooms here are unbelivable. They don't really use TP here, so instead they have this "hose" to douch yourself after you do your business. I um, haven't quite got that one down pat yet...I bring my own TP! (I know too much info!!!) And the showers don't have tubs...the whole bathroom is a shower floor. It's quite different!

The 3 of us went around town (around 1am) and the night life is nice - lots of street vendors cooking up yummy pad thai, meat on sticks, fruits, etc. MMM! I don't know how the thai stay so skinny! OMG EVERYONE one of them are crazy small!!! We sat in a restaurant to ppl watch and saw a lot of thai hookers taking away horny white men. Ew.

I got to do some shopping the next day in Bangkok, and it's really fun to bargin. The food is amazing and amazingly cheap!!!! So much awesome stuff and fresh fruits. We also walked alot (with our heavy big backpacks- so that was my work out- i need a FOOT MASSAGE badly!)

We actually got scammed - some "nice" english speaking Thai was telling us that we get to ride a tuk tuk (3 wheel motorized vehicle with roof, no doors) for 10 baht (33 cents canadian) and it will take us to see "little buddha" temple and other sorts of places. So he waved a tuk tuk down and the driver drove us to see the temple. There we met another "nice" english speaking thai man who just "happened" to be looking at the buddha. After small talk, he started talking about "big brand names" called "top ten collection" in Thailand (which supposedly is equivalent to Calvin Klein in US). So of course, the tuk tuk driver, who had waited for us, stopped by TOP TEN COLLECTION, which was conveniently on the way to the next tourist site. We caught on to the scam - and as soon as the tuk tuk driver drove us to another fabric store, we made a dash for it. Coincidently, we were only a few blocks from the Train station, where we needed to be. yay!

So the train ride was cool, slept thru most of it (since it was overnight) - the seats turned into bunk beds. This was 2nd class. First class get their own cabins (which we were meant to get, but Keith booked for 2nd class by accident). it was still decent.

We are at the bus station where the train dropped us off. I'm feeling nasty and gross b/c of all the sweat and pollution on me from Bangkok. Ew! Need a shower badly...doesn't help with the humidity!

We are soon going to take a bus into Phuket and Kelly, our friend, will be meeting us there. Her parents just bought a condo there - pretty awesome! We're going to go swimming, snorkling with sharks tomorrow (not the kind that bite!) We can't wait!!!!

Ick, gtg bugs biting me everywhere!!!