More Massages & Good Food in Bangkok!

Journal #28 March 18, 2009

So on our second day in Bangkok we decided to do some site seeing. We got up around 9 and headed to the Royal Palace. It was about a 15 min drive. When we got there we paid for out tickets and headed in. The Palace was enormous. The main thing that we wanted to see in the Palace was the Emerald Buddha. When we got to the place where it was, we had to take off our shoes and not allow our feet point towards Buddha. We were also not allowed to take pictures inside the building. Of course we wanted to remember this moment, so we secretively took pictures. But Doug was not so successful hahah, he got all his pictures deleted from his camera :(

When we left the palace we went to get some lunch. We went to a little hole in the wall restaurant which was pretty cool. We got some spring rolls and rice with pork. Very good food. After lunch me and Meghan headed back towards the hotel to get another massage. We got another 2 hour massage from the same lady. It was again another awesome massage but this time she really stretched my body.

We then went to dinner at the mall down the street. The restaurant was a type of place where you cook the food in front of you. You place the food in a pot and let it boil. We got beef, shrimp, and crab. DELICIOUS!!! Then we got a bottle of wine, and tub of ice cream and took it back to the hotel. Before we got ready for bed we went out to some of the markets on the streets. This was probably the coolest part because we were able to experience the culture of Thailand. There were tattoo parlors every so often and piercing parlors. It was kind of a thrilling thought to get a tattoo in Thailand but I would never do that. When we got back to the hotel we ate our ice cream, drank our wine, which by the way was disgusting, and watched a movie. We were exhausted from the days events.

Love
Michelle