Court and Chris woke us up about 9:00. Both Erin and I are feeling kinda hung over! We have no windows in our room, so have no concept of whether it's light or not out. We got mobile and everyone was deciding what to do . Everyone was going to go shopping at the Platinum and MBK shopping centres in downtown Bangkok. My parents and I decided to do our own thing.
So, we tried to walk to the Dewit area of Bangkok, not too far, but we missed a turn and ended up very far away on Ratchadamnoen Nok Road. This is a very wide road that houses a bunch of Thai government buildings, the main Muay Thai boxing arena in Bangkok and the UN. I imagine that the huge UN building there is the headquarters for much of the work they do in Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar. We kept walking, and after a couple of hours, made it to the Dewit area, and there was a HUGE graduation celebration happening at the main square there. Thousands and thousands of people all dressed up. It was soooo hot and humid.
We caught a tuk-tuk back to Koh San Road and had lunch, then took the tourist boat down to the central to the central dock, where it meets up with the Skytrain. We grabbed the Skytrain to the new shopping centre, Siam Platinum. It's HUGE and brand new (wasn't here 5 years ago). The third floor was the automall, with Porche, Maserati, Lambourgini, etc. dealers. The skytrain is awesome, super modern and efficient. Calgary Transit, learn some lessons!
After our window shopping, we caught the Skytrain back to the pier and caught a boat back to our area and met up with everyone else.
At 8:00-ish pm, everyone headed to Patpong area (Red Light District) in Bangkok. We didn't go to any of the shows, but there were tons of touts offering us ping-pong shows. (Court and I went to the shows last time.) We then found a place for supper, super slow service, then cabbed it back. I got to bed around midnight.
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