Sunday, February 10, 2008

Wat Phra Kaew and Grand Palace....leading to a late night!

Up about 8:30, crappy sleep, woke up in the middle of the night, it's so hot and humid.

Erin and I got breakfast, then we went over to my parents hotel. Dad is trying to get his ticket sorted out.

I went and got a haircut, then our whole group met up at noonish to go see Wat Phra Kaew (Temple of the Emerald Buddha) and the Grand Palace. 11 of us, we had quite a time keeping track of everyone!

We took a water taxi to the temple. It's VERY impressive. Something to definately see. Court and I tried to go and see it when we were here 5 years ago, but we got befriended by a scam artist, and didn't go. We hired a guide, Sunny, to give us the tour. She was hilarious. She kept pinching Rob's nipple, and rubbing dads stomach and calling him Happy Buddha. She was great.

Tour ended about 3:30, after about 2 hours under the hot sun. We're all pretty wiped. We got a water taxi back to the hotel, showered and lounged and I wrote in my journal.

We went for supper (minus my parents) at an Indian place, then back to the room to nap. Tahnie and Sterling (Tahnie is Courtney's sister, Sterling is her husband) are arriving around midnight tonight, so they all wanted to be up when they arrived.

Mom and Dad went to the Calypso Cabaret tonight. It's a Thai lady-boy Vegas-style show.

We all napped, and Erin woke up about 11:30pm and woke everyone else up. Tahnie and Sterling arrived shortly after midnight.

After they checked in, we all walked around Koh San Road and had a beer at a pub. Everyone started crashing about 1:00am, except Erin and I. We were completely wide awake, after the nap. We stayed up, and decided to go clubbing. On our way back to Koh San Road, a couple from China were trying to find Koh San Road, so we took them with us. They were very grateful. We headed to Gullivers Pub, the main backpacker club. We got a drink, and shortly after, it closed up, it was already 2:00am.

We left, and there was all kinds of touts offering cheap tuk-tuk rides to an after-hours club for 10 baht. Erin and I were still wide awake, so we went to the after hours club (Spicy). It was about a 10 minute tuk-tuk ride. The club was awesome, great music, but was obviously a front for a brothel. Tons of Thai girls looking to pick up guys. It was 300 baht cover, but that included one drink. We had three drinks altogether and danced and watched the hookers ply their trade with the backpacker guys. We got a good buzz happening.

On the way to Spicy, another tuk-tuk beside us had a couple of guys from Turkey going to the same club. We ran into them again at the club, and one of the guys his arms around a girl from Iran. He came over to me and said he came to Thailand to get with Thai girls, and he ends up with a girl from Iran, and then he started laughing. It was funny.

In this club, when you go to the washroom, as your pissing, guys start giving you a massage. Then they turn on the water tap for you to wash your hands, and give you a towel. Of course, they want a tip after that. I had no money (Erin was paying for me), so they were kinda annoyed with me. :-)

After who knows how long, we left Spicy and got a metered taxi back to Koh San Road, went to McDonalds for grease, then to the hotel. Got to bed about 5:30am.

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