May 3
We awoke this morning early and feeling refreshed after
having had a pretty good night’s sleep on the train. We pulled into Bangkok a little later than
planned at around 8:00am and made our way to the taxi stand. After much cajoling and haggling over the
price, I relent and agree to two tuk-tuk drivers to take us back to our Khaosan
neighborhood. These guys are like
jockeys at the racetrack and we have mock drag races on the longer stretches of
open road. We have never gone so fast on
the tuk-tuks and the kids find it fun to be on a semi-carnival ride through
town. We arrive and make our way to our
wonderful, welcoming home away from home and are delighted to see the faces of
our friends Ohm, Dada and Tri. We are
able to get into our room and then we enjoy a lovely breakfast before heading
upstairs to settle into the room. Annie
and Paulie soon venture off for a little souvenir shopping and the boys and I
stay behind and relax. When they get
back, Paulie and I schedule a trip for tomorrow, our last day in Bangkok, to go
visit the floating market about two hours outside of town. Later, we go off to our Rambuttri corner to
have lunch and return once again. Since
this is a pretty lazy day, we go off to Chinatown and walk around, finding a
new array of food choices that are not available on Khaosan Road. We enjoy warm chestnuts, pomegranate juice,
grilled Tiger prawns and an assortment of other yummy foods before returning
home for the night. Tomorrow will be an
early day and we get to bed before too long.
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