Spent the day lazing around by the pool. Lunch was an enormous milkshake at a Foremost ice cream shop – 15 flavors, including rocky road, to choose from. In the afternoon I went Thai Silk shopping but couldn’t make up my mind. There are so many beautiful prints at $6 a yard which tailors will make into a dress for $20.
The Thai people are great and don’t pay extra attention to you. Unlike Burma where everyone wore a sarong, Bangkok residents dress western. The women wear dresses almost entirely and tall heels. Bryan’s stomach is better (could it be the ice cream?) but he still has a miserable cough left over from an Afghan cold. I feel very healthy now, having recovered from my bout in India.
What a lovely place for relaxing; it is so hot you have to slow down in the middle of the day – a minimum of 90 degrees and 75% humidity. We swim in the pool daily, eat hamburgers and ice cream and wander through the air conditioned stores. We have a map of the bus system and have been taking the buses around. How lovely to relax. One morning we had breakfast at the pool and in the afternoon we ordered fresh iced mandarin juice.
Monday we went to the post office to mail home our sweaters and some Thai silk. The beautifully organized place even had a packing service and for 35 cents we got a box, had it taped and banded.
We bought train tickets in the well organized train station – take a number rather than stand in line – and bought a first class sleeper ticket down to south Thailand for Tuesday. Time for a bit of beaching.
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