Day 2 Thailand

Day 2 in Thailand just happened to also be Christmas Day. Now I had imagined that Christmas Day without my family and friends, in a foreign land was gonna be hard. But when I woke up and realized I was in the awesomest country in the world, I did not feel so sorry for myself anymore. Besides, Vanessa and I had decided to participate in a wholly Western Christmas time activity; we went shopping. It was one of Vanessa's stipulations for the trip that we hit up MBK (Thailand's biggest shopping mall) during the trip and what better day than the most commercialised holiday of the year?

So normally I hate shopping but when you can get a pair of Diesel (I'm sure they were real) jeans, hemmed and all, for 17$ you can't really go wrong. This mall was super massive! It had 7 floors of little shops as far as the eye could see. I was able to get my buddy a pair of OOkleys (my little joke) for 6$ and they actually look real. Vanessa had a typical female reaction to a big ass mall, she didn't want to ever leave. But I made her promise me that we would go watch some Muai Thai boxing.

So we left MBK and headed to the stadium to go watch some Thais beat the crap out of each other. No dice though, it wasn't closed due to Christmas but due to the fact that it was Monday. Not to fear though friends, the stadium just happened to be on the outskirts of this place called Lumpini Park. This park featured a night market, a huge ass ferris wheel and a massive park complete with a huge man-made lake. So we did what any self-respecting tourists would do; we had a bunch of cheap beers, rode the ferris wheel and walked in the park until we got kicked out by the Po-Po. They didn't even expect a bribe, how nice of them!

After our long day of shopping we headed back across town for a few last beers among our compatriots on Khoa San Road. All-in-all, not a bad Christmas Day at all. Although part of me really wished I could have seen at least one familiar face from back home.

Day 3: Buddhist Temples and off to Phuket

Ronnie Out...for now