More Shopping

Slept in until about 10:30, I slept awesome. Got up, used internet, went for breakfast/lunch, took some laundry in to get done, and bought bus tickets to Koh Samui.

Another blistering hot day.

I needed buy some more rechargable batteries and an adater for the AC adapter for my MiniDisc player...it's a European model, so got a European AC adapter.

About 1:00, we got on A/C bus #79 (so nice and cool!) and headed to Siam Square and walked to Pantip Plaza and bought some good Ni-MH batteries and a prong adapter for my AC adapter.

Got back to Khao San road about 4:15, we went to Burger King and I got a double cheeseburger combo. I'm really getting sick of rice and noodles and small chunks of chicken for meals.

We walked back to the guest house and along the way Court got a baguette (chicken and veggie) from our favorite Thai lady-boy street vendor. He/she makes amazing fruit shakes as well.

Back at the guest house, we showered and rested in A/C comfort.

Court remarked that she's not ready to go to Australia, she loves living in SE Asia. The street vendors, tuk-tuks, riding around in the back of pickups or the back of a motorcycle or a cyclo. Buying a beer or a cooler at 7-11 and walking down the street with it. Having a drink at a "booze van", a VW van turned mobile bar. They're all over, including an impromptu bar that opens up in the parking lot of a Shell gas station after it closes down for the day. They even have tables and chairs. Eating bugs. Cheap shopping. Cheap CD and DVD ripoffs! Quite frankly, Court and I love it here, and aren't really looking forward to Australia too much.

Anyway, Court slept for a while, I went down and used the internet, then she came down and we took a bus to Patpong area, a huge night market and home to one of Bangkok's red-light districts. We had talked about going to a girlie show for a few days, and everyone else says to do it, so here we were. We got hustled by a street guy telling us no cover for the show, we just buy a drink. We got in there, and we sat down and ordered two beers, and a bill for 600 baht comes. Way too much, we argue with the manager lady, she then backs down somewhat and gives us special price of 150 baht each, drinks included. We stayed for about 45 minutes. Then we walked around the market, I bought some shorts and Court bought yet another shirt.

We left Patpong about 11:00, and waited for a bus, and waited and waited and waited and no bus #15 came. Every other bus was running, except the one we needed. We finally gave up and approached a tuk-tuk, he wanted 300 baht to go back, we told him way too much, and walked away, he then dropped to 150 baht, but that was still too much, we wanted 100 baht. We talked to another tuk-tuk, he started at 150 baht, and we finally agreed on 110 baht. We got back shortly after midnight.