our last day!!!!!!! we decided to do a normal person thing and go see a movie. we bussed it back to Siam Square and had lunch at Pizza Hut. then we saw Shallow Hall, the fat Gwyneth Paltrow movie. DO NOT SEE IT. very bad movie. HOWEVER. the movie experience was exceptional. the movie cost 100 Bhat, which is 10shekels, about $2. the theatre was spacious, clean, with a big screen and big, comfortable, reclining seats. the kicker was that in between the previews and the movie they played the thailand national anthem and we stood up and watched this video montage of the king's life. in this country they are OBSESSED with their king. in every city along the main street there are giant picture frame-things with photographs of the royal family. thai money is plastered with pictures of the king. rachelle became slightly distressed when she realized that on the twenty Bhat bill, next to thedrawing of the king's face, there is a watermark of the king's face which can be seen if the bill is held up to the light. so paying homage to him at the movies was not shocking. a pleasant surprise.
waiting for the bus to take us back to Kho Sahn we met some Canadian boys who had met our friend Avi in the north. for such a large country, thailand is pretty small. honestly, on this day we bumped into at least 5 other people we had seen on other parts of our trip. it was really weird. the bus was slow in coming and so we took our final tuk-tuk back. weep, weep. the sadness did not last long. our driver tried to overcharge us, and instead of calling the tourist police we simply paid him what we had agreed on and then walked away. then we did the last of our shopping, ate our last pad thai, sipped our last fruit shakes, and bid thailand adieu.
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