Holy Bangkok
Thanks for all of the great messages. It is so nice to be in an internet cafe halfway across the world and get such nice messages from home.
We spent our first day in Bangkok exploring the city from 8am to 6pm. It is a great city to walk around in as there are tons of markets and people to look at. There are people and dogs everywhere, and cars, motorbikes, and three wheel tuk tuks. This all leads to tons of fumes and smog. The best part was walking around through the various markets where you can buy anything from food on the street, tools, watches, snakes, any who knows what else. It pays to be a good barterer though, we both had our first experience with this and boy do they drive a tough bargain. We also saw two of the three main temples Wat Arun and Wat Po which were pretty impressive. Hopefully we will hit the Grand Palace later today.
The food is great so far, we have tried red curry, phat thi, and some other different dishes with bamboo and hot chilis. It has been great so far but we havn’t dared noodles or rice for breakfast yet.
Check out our pics and we are thinking of you all!
Love, Sara and Jarrod
jarrod on November 27th 2007 in Vacation
fabrizim responded on 29 Nov 2007 at 1:45 pm #
Hey guys -
Glad to see you made it safe and are already getting to see some sights! Diggin’ the pics!
Joyce, I bet you won’t eat a handful of those chilis! (Weird, I guess I have to specify Jarrod or Sara, as you are both Joyce’s now… I meant Jarrod).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wat_Pho - if anyone is interested in what wat pho is…
Look foward to seeing some more photogs.
Have a good one and keep us posted.
-Mark
Phil and Lauren responded on 30 Nov 2007 at 10:57 am #
Looks like you guys are gettin’ wicked thunderous up in that piece. Make sure to grip it and rip every goddamn day, that’ll earn you a place on Team MAGNUM, our vicious world traveling team. ‘Cause when it comes to Team MAGNUM, well, that’s already too much information for a public blog…
This is Lauren now.
I haven’t even had a chance to check out this page…we just woke up and we’re drinkin’ coffee and we started talking about our trip to Italy and Phil just popped your page up on the screen. What a great idea! From what I did see briefly, it looks like you guys are doing well. I’m so happy. You are already missed. Can’t wait to have you back, but how wonderful for you to be on such an adventure. Take Care. We will write again.
Love you.
P.S. I don’t know that I could swing rice or noodles in the morning either? That’d take time to get used to.
Erin responded on 01 Dec 2007 at 9:09 am #
Joyces!!! yea it looks to me as if you both are already having a wild time.. i would recommend staying away from the chillis..you never know. i love you both ! have fun be safe and leave no stone unturned!! love always erin