we got another early start today and had breakfast on the go (fruit smoothies, mango, cheese sandwiches that i found at a falafel stand. i just can't stay away, i guess. took a tuk-tuk to the Duset Throne Hall and Vanmek Teak Mansion. people watched there, saw the two exhibits (meuseumy like mansion and nice crafts), ate popsicles.
this place was so nice!! first of all, we were like the only white people there which was nice even though (and i am not exaggerating one bit) people were POINTING at us. one dad even whipped out his camera to take a picture of us with his son. it was really weird. but we just smiled back, b/c hey, we just also wanted to take pictures of their cute kids. The whole place was like this complex-- several huge beautiful buildings and all connected by vast lawns. kinda reminded me of grifiths park. food venders everywhere. all these thais do is eat. it was so peaceful, with thai loudspeaker in the background, kids walking and running around with their parents, families eating on the grass. it was really nice to get out of the city. i think we are going to really enjoy being in the north, out of bangkok. bangkok is cool, but it is too city-ish to vacation here for that long.
then we had our first meal in a resturaunt!!!!!!! sweet and sour vedgetables with tofu, rice, spicy stir fry noodles, not spicy stir fry vedgies, bottled water, fruit smoothies after. the whole thing only cost each of us 50Baht which is 5 shekels, $1.20!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i love this food=cheap thing. now we are just chilling about an hour until we have to leave to catch our train up north!!! we are going trekking the 2-5 days we are there, so you may not hear from me for a while.
night train was actually quite fun. rachelle taught us Canadian Asshole (a card game) and we played that for an hour, talked, ate a whole bunch of stuff we found at the Thai grocery store ("tasty bean snacks!" and corn flavored yogurt).
quote of the day: "you know that cereal, the golden hexagons?" (Adina, talking about Honeycombs)
"do you think she's going to bring us a bill?" (rachelle) "no, probably just a total." (miriam at the noodle shop)
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