Can Do It!

Yesterday began with breakfast as usual. We had chicken over rice and it was delicious... As usual. It was another day of shopping that my body wasn't prepared for. We started first by stopping at a temple that is also a foot massage school. It also houses that big lounging buddha. Like, really big. Anyway, to get in, I had to pay 50 baht while Alyssa and Ta and Tan got in for free because they are Thai. More segregation was to follow, after having to enter through a different door where a man with disgustingly long fingernails grabbed my ticket from me and almost grazed my skin with his freakishly long nails. Then the Thai people put their shoes in one shelf unit while all the foreigners had to walk down this narrow path thing and put there shoes inside. All very suspicious.

The temple was cool for about 5 minutes then we were hungry so we bounced. It started to rain pretty hard so we went into the big inside market, MBK, and had lunch at the food court. This might sound lame to the ignorant but you haven't seen Asia's food courts. They are overwhelmingly huge. Maybe a hundred different kinds of food you can pick from... And its all pretty high quality. I got papaya salad, red curry, pad kra pow, rice and a fried egg. It was a feast for again just a few dollars. Oh and of course ended with sticky rice and mango.

After lunch we went to the illegel movie stall. I got Death at a Funeral, King of Kong, Definitely Maybe, and for some reason I can't remember my other one. And they didn't have He's Just Not That Into You... That was unfortunate. But I do finalize realize why I actually liked Definitely, Maybe... Its from the producers of Love Actually and Bridget Jones! What do you know... Oh all the movies cost about ten dollars total. I am a bad member of the film industry for supporting such illegal actions.

There were a lot of really awful tshirt places with shirts like "Starfucks Fo Free" with a picture of a penis on it. Her aunt said she bought it and wore it for two weeks and had no idea what it was. She was so embarrassed when she dropped off her kid at her school in that shirt. Also, Alyssa's other boy cousin was wearing a shirt last night that said "Cock, it's the real thing" but made to look like a coke shirt. He is 14. We don't think he knows what it says in English... He doesn't speak it that well. We felt awkward.

We passed by a fish massage salon. People put their hands and feet in a tank with these fish that eat all the dead skin off of you. Its so creepy. I put my hand in and they attacked. We walked away quickly.

So blazers are in again and Alyssa has now bought 3 different colors. I got a black one. Alyssa swears they will be big in america soon. We will just see about that. Ours are cute so whatever. They are like soft material not stiff old people blazers. Oh and one thing popular here that we hope doesn't get popular are the Blythe dolls. They are the demon-like dolls with different clothes, hair, and creepy eyes. You can change thei eye color but mostly they come in RED. Her little cousin has over 30 and said one sleeps next to her and watches her while she sleeps. Eh.

For dinner we went over to Chinatown into this really sketchy alley and had delicious bum mi soup. I got two orders, one with spicy rice noodles and pork stomach and fishballs, and the other regular with vermicelli noodles and the same meat. Pork stomach is actually really flavorful. Tastes like everything the little piggy ate. Alyssa gave me her, she couldn't eat it.

On the way back to her aunts house, for some reason her family started singing the Thai national anthem. Then we sang Americas. Then we sang some patriotic songs from choir and listened to her uncle and cousin sing patriotic Thai songs. That was weird. Thai ones are obviously way better. Also, her uncle who barely speaks english started trying to lecture us on phuket and chiang mai and kept saying "Safety First!" But with his accent more like "Safety Firt!" That's really all we could understand. The night before at dinner we told him to eat all the leftovers because we were full and all he said was "Can do it!!!" With a fist in the air. He's funny. Its funny when people can't speak english.

Her family keeps paying for everything and no matter what we do they say No, no. Its nice but I feel bad too. Her uncle keeps giving her hundreds of dollars to spend too. At breakfast today he was having trouble finding his money and we were like Oh we will pay! And then he found it and he had a hugggggge stack of hundreds wrapped in a rubberband. That shut us up. The house we are staying in is huge too. So many rooms, empty too. Its her aunts second house... They are going to sell it soon. But the bedrooms are all as big as apartments, two kitchens, and gated entry. Its really insane. And scary. We came home last night and usually all the doors are locked but the room next to ours was open and the bathroom inside had its light on. We shut the door and went to bed.
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