Bangkok, Thailand

So I'm going to do my best to document my midsemester break trip for you guys! I'm going to try and write it one day at a time along with a few photos and videos (rest of the photos will be up on Facebook, eventually).

OKAY!
Friday, September 23rd!
Beginning with the airport...

Singapore is supposed to have one of the best airports in the world; as in, it has a gym, swimming pool, spa, movie theatre, and so much more. Unfortunately, we didn't get to take advantage of these since our flight was at a decent hour of 10AM or so. We did, however, manage to run into a few creeps while exchanging money. This guy heard me and Alva talking and since we have an American accent, he proceeded to ask where we were from. Then it got weird. I think him and his two buddies were on some sort of drug because they kept looking at us with big eyes and smiling in this very crude manner while insisting that we cancel our Thailand trip and go to Sumatra on their big boat and go surfing with them (they were from Huntington Beach). Very, um, interesting way to kick off our vacation.

We made it to Bangkok and checked into the Sawasdee Inn (Sawasdee means "hello" in Thai) and let me tell you, the staff was terrible! Yes, we tried to sneak in extra people, but they still acted rude after overcharging us. We ended up fitting FOUR people onto a queen-sized bed. Fun slumber party for sure.

That night, we decided to see a caberet show! For those who don't know what that is, it's a fantastic show consisting of beautiful women...women who are actually men. But really, it's amazing how beautiful these guys are! Even their motions are very feminine and graceful (some of them, anyways). Of course, some of them are much more convincing than others, but it was incredible none-the-less. Trust me, even the boys (Irvin and Jeff) were like WTF after seeing them perform.

Okay, the ones right above were the unhot ones, lol. For more photos, go to Facebook!

After the show, it was very schematic the way they have them all surround you at the exit. So many beautiful women who are calling out towards you (with deep voices) that even I, a female, was completely overwhelmed. It was just crazy how beautiful they were! Talk about a self-esteem drop, these guys were way more attractive as women than I could ever be as a girl!

It poured buckets that night so we got completely ripped on taxi fare...lemme tell you, always go for meter rates, don't even try and negotiate because they will rip you. But overall, a very fun and exciting night!

And here we all are in our hotel room...4 of us sharing ONE queen-sized bed...lolll. College students to the extreme!

Saturday: September 24th:
Grand Palace tour, Nancy, a lot of wasted time, Canal boat ride, Chatuchat, lots of buying, clubbing but Irvin couldn't get in...

We had booked this tour from the airport the day before, so the tour van picked us up at around 9AM (after the hotel staff busted us for too many people in the room). We went to the Grand Palace with this really nice tour guide named Nancy. Unfortunately, we also had to go to a lot of random places that tried to sell you stuff and thus wasted time. The reason is because the tour guides get a comission if any one of us buys something. ::shrug::

We also went on a canal ride through Bangkok. Note: The water is DIRTY. Not just dirty, but it's their sewege system. Talk about nasty. Surprisingly, there were living fish in it! Lots of catfish! I don't think you'd want to eat any of it since it was so dirty though!

Me and Irvin got suckered into buying these hats...I don't know why! It was only 100 baht though...

After that, we went to this huge weekend market called Chatuchat. OMG, seriously, the best shopping ever! And so cheap, it was torture. It was so huge, I didn't get get done with one section within 4 hours! They had tons of real Hollister and Ambercrombie, amongst all the goodies.

That night, we went out clubbing to see how the night life was. We went to this one strip (I forget what it's called) where there was supposed to be this hot club called Route 66, but Irvin couldn't get in since he wasn't 20 yet. So we went to this bar where a live band did cover songs. It was actually really cool and they did a really good job performing!


Rollin' in style with our pink taxi...lol!




Irvin got suckered into buying 6 roses that night by these cute little girls...lol, pedophile!

And that finished up our night! Here's a closing picture of Jeff being a princess is our now seperate rooms...lol!






















Sunday: September 25th:
Slept in like whoa, visited Reclining Buddha, Marbel Temple, Temple of Dawn (but closed, sad), tanks, ran into Anna and them, tried to go to JJ Market but didn't know where/when. Movie: JSA

Today we slept in a lot (too late to go back to Chatuchat! Sad!) but we went around to as many temples as we could with the time that we had...which wasn't very much either. The Reclining Buddha was amazing though!





Lots and lots of getting lost and going in circles while taxi drivers tried to rip us off. But over all, lots of fun! We even went around and took pictures with the military coup guys...they're like celebrities here! Parents lining up to have them hold their babies and everything! Right next to their gun, lol.