Bangkok Part 2

On Monday Heather and I went for a run. We didn't think taking 4 days off while training for a half marathon was a good idea. As we were running in a near by park the National Anthem came on and everyone stops moving to pay honor to the King. This also happened before we watched the movie, and apparently every day at 8am and 6pm...note to self, run before 8am in Bangkok or you loose your stride! After our run we had some breakfast at a place called Au Bon Pain which is similar to Panara. It was so nice to eat a bagel with cream cheese, sigh.

Franki with her morning coffee

City view with the Sky train we rode

 We decided to do a little site seeing so we jumped on the Sky train and went in search of the Jim Thompson house. Jim Thompson was called the Silk King and started the trade between Thailand and America, but when he was 61 years old he vanished and they still have no idea what happened to him. He was in Malaysia and went for an afternoon walk and never came back. Our tour guide showed us the paper he got telling his fortune and he was told that because he was born in the year of the horse he needed to be careful when he turned 61. She told us to consider that if we were born in the year of the horse...and then followed it up with, but don't worry about it if you don't believe in Horoscopes. I laughed glad I don't believe the fatalistic nonsense.

His house

 After seeing his very cool house and gardens we found some street food before looking for an indoor market our friends had told us about. Outside the mall I took a picture of a Spirit house which you see all over the place in Thailand and in Cambodia...but they looked much nicer in Thailand. The second picture is of their daily offering to the Spirit house.

 After walking through the mall/market we decided we wanted to find a place to sit. So we found a book store, grabbed some reading material, and sat down for a while. We then hopped on the Sky train to meet our friends for a Mexican dinner. The food was great and it was fun meeting a couple more Americans working in Thailand. After dinner a smaller group of us headed to a desert place where I had a baked ice cream sundae...which was a chocolate chip cookie with chocolate inside...but it was shaped like a little bun. It was great! I understood why one of my friends went twice during her two day stay in Thailand.

For our final day we went to another area of the city to run an errand for a friend. We found another Starbucks and enjoyed some of the Christmas flavors! I had a Peppermint Mocha Frappachino, which was amazing! We bought some street food and headed back to say good bye to our other host before catching our flight home.

House were we stayed

Franki and Heather with their final food buys

Me, Celeste, and Franki

We had a great time in Thailand and it was a great way to spend our long weekend thanks to the holiday on Tuesday. I would suggest a visit to Thailand as everything is labeled well and they have maps for everything ...even the airport. And at the airport they had free samples which were very good :)