Food and Shopping :)

I’m officially Jet lagged. Night is day and day is night.  Last night, I woke up at 3 am, super hungry. I had to wait four hours to eat because it was too dark and scary to go out and Andrew wouldn’t wake up and come with me! 

When we finally went out to find food the only places open were street vendors.  I should take a picture of these. The conditions are not sanitary to American standards.  For example Andrew ordered curry with noodles and the lady picked up the noodles with her hands to put them into the soup.  And some places have the food just sitting out and people pass money and breath over the food. Who knows how long the food has been sitting there.  Maybe I’m just paranoid to not want to eat that. Today where I was eating my breakfast was this back alley food court. A few little bugs were crawling on the tables and there was a lizard on the wall.  Stray cats and dogs hang around some of the street vendors.

            Andrew is the bravest eater I have ever met, he’ll eat anything even if he doesn’t know what it is. He has had some crazy looking fish and meat these past couple of days. (I should take pictures) I’m working on trying new things. I tried a papaya salad yesterday and the only thing that scared me was that it wasn’t cooked and was made on the street but it was good. I also drank coconut water out of a coconut.  I love coconut water. If I try something new everyday by the end of my time here I’ll maybe be eating some of the things Andrew is eating now….maybe.

            We took the Skytrain and the metro/subway today. We were proud of our ability to navigate the system. Although, it was probably so easy because it was all translated to English. (but maybe I shouldn’t say that so we sound cooler). The goal of taking the two types of trains was to go to the Bangkok train station to buy our tickets to Phuket. We will take a twelve-hour overnight sleeper train then a four-hour bus ride to get to Phuket City.

            Then we shopped some more. We have been wandering around the MBK shopping center in Siam Square, Bangkok for hours. It’s fun to see everything that is for sale. We are pretty good at bargaining. Andrew studied Thai a lot before we left and everyone is very impressed with his ability to speak the local language. I can tell the vendors get a great smile on their face when he speaks Thai. It helps lower the prices of our items.  It makes me want to be cool like him.

            Walking around Bangkok is different because it’s so busy. Some of the sidewalks are uneven. It’s hard to cross the street because the right of way goes to what ever is biggest and fastest. In the busy intersections there are steps to pedestrian overpasses.  I need a Thai foot massage soon from all the walking!  

Ok off to study Thai. Laa-gor!

--Jenny