Bangkok

Hello from Bangkok!

We stayed at the Hilton last night (for *free* thanks to the Hilton points I racked up at my last job!), which is on the west side of the river that runs through the enormous city of Bangkok. We woke up at 6:00 this morning and got on the boat taxi to get to the other side of the river. The boat driver was really friendly and let Jeremy drive the boat!

On the other side of the river, there was a little market with several food stalls. We both had an awesome iced mocha (we noticed that the barista added sweetened condensed milk to it instead of sugar... something to think about) and then we bought some little fried dough balls with bean paste in the middle. We recognized them because we get them from a Thai restaurant in Atlanta. They were really tasty and only 10 Thai Baht for 5 of them, which is equivalent to about $0.30.

We then took the subway to Siem Square, which is a big area with tons of stores, all of which opened at 10am or later! So we just walked around and people-watched for a while, then sat in a restaurant to catch some air conditioner. Right when we got back out on the street, a really friendly Thai man stopped us to chat for about 20 minutes. He couldn't believe we came all the way from America.

Jeremy found this sign hilarious...



If you can't read it, it says Happy Virus.

When we had our fill of walking around that area, we came back to this side of the river and found a really neat Thai market next to our hotel. We had some good food there for really cheap - I had grilled chicken on a stick for 25 Baht and Jeremy had a really good dish (we don't really know what was in it) which is pictured below. His lunch was about 49 Baht. There was a side of a really spicy sauce that he put on it - when the wind blew it in my direction, it burned my eyes!

We only had one day in Bangkok and are about to catch our flight to Chiang Mai, which luckily is only about an hour long flight!