Tuesday, May 06, 2003

Popcorn!

I got up about 9:00, I went to have a shower, and there's no water. So, I just lounged for a while, and recorded more CD's onto my MiniDisc.

About 9:30 the water showed up, so we showered, went to internet, had breakfast, etc.

Around the Khao San Road area, because it's such a backpacker hotbed, there's lots of vendors on the street that have signs "We buy EVERYTHING", so Court and I decided to try and sell some of our stuff. I wanted to sell my (piece of crap) CD player, and my beach towel (I bought a sarong for the beach), and Courtney wanted to sell a pair of headphones she never uses, a pair of sandals she doesn't use and some other clothes she doesn't wear. We visited about 5 different vendors trying to wrangle a good deal. We visited one vendor, the guy tried out my CD player, and was impressed with it, and another guy at the shop really wanted Court's sandals, but they wouldn't give us enough money. So we continued on our search. We still couldn't get enough from anyone else, so we started back, and when we were walking past the place that liked my CD player and Court's sandals, they called us over, and we brokered a decent deal for everything. They didn't want any of the clothes or the towel, all they were interested in were the CD player and sandals. Anyway, we ended up getting 650 baht for everything, 500 baht for my CD player, and 150 for everything else. It's great fun being the seller and not the buyer for once!!!! We had a blast wrangling with the vendors over price, it was a blast...they enjoyed it too, we could tell!

With our new money, we decided we needed speakers so we could listen to music in our room, so we walked around Khao San Road trying to find a good deal on speakers. We ended up getting a decent pair of powered speakers for 400 baht.

We went back to the room and cooled down. The last few days have been BLISTERING hot, the sun has been blazing. Yesterday, my watch registered 39.6 degrees outside! We decided to go to a movie at one of the theatres downtown this evening.

So, we supper about 4:00, then headed to BMK about 5:00. Courtney is in real shopping heaven. Huge air-conditioned malls, selling clothes and accessories, she kept remarking she couldn't believe that this was in Bangkok. She was amazed at the ultra-modern shopping complexes and movie theatres here. Blew her mind. We window shopped for a while, then about 6:00, headed up to the movie complex on the 7th floor, and decided to see Anger Management, with Jack Nicolson and Adam Sandler. We bought our ticket (100 baht...just over $3CDN), but the show didn't start for another 40 minutes, so we hit Dairy Queen and I had a Blizzard, then we went inside the theatre, bought some popcorn (yummy!) and drinks, and waited for the doors to open up.

They opened the doors about 6:30, we got our seats. When you buy your tickets, they show you, on a computer monitor, the layout of the theatre, and let you pick the seats you want, so we had pre-assigned seats. They showed quite a few previews (the new one with Jim Carrey looks realy good!, then they played the Thai national anthem, while showing pictures of the king and the Thai countryside on the movie screen. When this is playing, everyone stands up during the national anthem to show respect for their country and king. Then the movie started.

Very funny movie. Thumbs up from Court and I.

After the movie, Court window shopped a little more and said she wants to come back tomorrow and do some power shopping. We got back to the guest house about 10:00, and went to bed.

The bus ride (perhaps 10km) cost only 3.5 baht...which is about 10 cents CDN...so cheap.

WE ran into Nigel while at BMK, which is weird, because we happen to be at the same spot at the same instant in the biggest mall in Thailand (maybe SE Asia), with thousands of people around.

Courts ear feeling better today, finally. She's happy!

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