day four

despite getting pretty much nothing done, this was a very jampacked day. were greeted at the train station by someone from the house we were staying at. driven to the house (nice!!!) and got our room. found that though we had a room with a private bath and hot water showers, the water wasn't working. haha, the water wasn't working on the entire 3rd floor, where we were staying. the morning got off to a fantastic start when linda had eggs for breakfast and tried to open a bottle of ketchup and all of the contents exploded all over her!! we took pictures.

after we ate we decided to walk around the town and find a post office to mail our postcards and see about the bus schedule to chang rai, a city further north. we found this bus station that was so not a bus station. the lonely planet book called it a bus station but in reality it was a man sitting at a folding card table giving out tickets. the post office turned out to be closed. so that was a bust, but then we ran into the randomest person, this guy i know from UCSD named Edan who is studying in Tel Aviv for the year and is also in Thailand for break. we had no idea the other was in this country. seriously, what are the odds.

when we returned back, we had more shower issues. in that the shower did not work. black stuff came out of the pipes. so we got the manager type person, who went and fetched 4 other people, who all walked in unannounced into our bathroom. they stood there awhile fixing the shower (or so we thought) while we played cards. then they left without saying anything. so we sat there playing for another 20 minutes or so until we realized that they weren't coming back! it was especially weird b/c they had left the bathroom without saying anything to us, ie, your shower is not working.

the night got even better. we ended up showering in some other room on the first floor. got all dolled up to go out on the town when it started raining. not just raining, but POURING. almost monsooning. we pretended. so we played cards some more. funny how our shower was leaking buckets. we were starving but couldn't leave the house so we ate all the crap food that we had-- chocolate chip cookies, oreos, cheese crackers, bread and jelly, peanuts, oriental snack mix. finally the rain let up and we went and had pad thai (again) and used the internet. bytheway, thais lie all the time.

quote of the day: "no shower? oh! its a holiday today!!" (racha house keeper, where we were staying, on why NOTHING worked.)

"so we both don't have a shower but at least you have a trash can." (adina, upon seeing miriam and linda's room)

"it's not monsooning anymore. thats just your leaky shower and the fan." (miriam, pointing out the not-so obvious to rachelle and I.