Simon has a passion for animals made of trees.
Aunty Ant awoke me at 0615 Wednesday morning as us girls were off (seriously then and there at 0630) to the salon for fancy hair and makeup before the grand opening of one of their new schools. Some time later emerged gorgeously curly headed. School opening was great to be a part of and the place was so funky - decked out in bright colours with heaps of cool toys and furniture that I would love to have in my room (if I had one).
Later travelled to MBK mall - 8 levels of shopping with everything you could imagine and cheap as chips. We were not in the 'shopping zone' so didn't spend too many hours racking up bags of cheap imitation clothes etc. Later travelled to Dusit Zoo which was a very cool place with heaps of animals and a huge lake in the middle that we gladly paddle boated on.
First real Thai meal for dinner that night was great. Crispy chicken and rice for two and only about 11 bucks including a massive Heineken and a coke! What a deal.
Still 35C today and not likely to get any colder in the next ten days. It's awesome.
As crazy as it sounds, ordering an authentic Thai meal from a restaurant in Thailand has been one of the highlights of the trip so far.
I'm ashamed to admit it but up until that point we had been eating as many Western-style meals as possible. We ate at KFC, Maccas, and we had pizza one night. On two occasions we didn't have lunch until something like 3pm because we couldn't find a certifiably "safe" Western restaurant.
It's different when you're here though. I do like Thai food as a general rule in New Zealand, but in Bangkok I have yet to find a single freaking Thai Green Curry, and even if i did find one on a menu i wouldn't be able to read it because it's written in Thai! It's quite a predicament as you can surely imagine.
So on that fateful night we were told by Nicola's uncle (who we've been staying with by the way) exactly what to order and how to say it. We eventually walked into this restaurant and to our dismay we were the only foreigners in the place. I swear everybody turned around and looked when we walked in the door. Luckily though, we had no problems ordering and the food turned out to be pretty damn tasty. It was very satisfying, and of course the beer was good (a safe Western beer of course, not a Thai one!).
As for the zoo, that was an extremely strange place. We were boating round this lake and then all of a sudden we see these gigantic lizards emerge right next to our boat! Okay, so that might be a wee bit of an exageration, but i swear we didn't know there were lizards in the lake when we embarked on our little paddle-boat voyage. Apparently they were monitor lizards. They were about 1.5m long, and according to the ever trustworthy Wikipedia they're part of the same family as the Komodo dragon. I defy you not to be more than a little freaked out when the Komodo dragon's brother pops out of the lake right beside your boat!
P.S. I thought the topiary animals were pretty nifty. In many ways they were a lot cooler than the real animals - they let you pat them for one thing.
Later travelled to MBK mall - 8 levels of shopping with everything you could imagine and cheap as chips. We were not in the 'shopping zone' so didn't spend too many hours racking up bags of cheap imitation clothes etc. Later travelled to Dusit Zoo which was a very cool place with heaps of animals and a huge lake in the middle that we gladly paddle boated on.
First real Thai meal for dinner that night was great. Crispy chicken and rice for two and only about 11 bucks including a massive Heineken and a coke! What a deal.
Still 35C today and not likely to get any colder in the next ten days. It's awesome.
As crazy as it sounds, ordering an authentic Thai meal from a restaurant in Thailand has been one of the highlights of the trip so far.
I'm ashamed to admit it but up until that point we had been eating as many Western-style meals as possible. We ate at KFC, Maccas, and we had pizza one night. On two occasions we didn't have lunch until something like 3pm because we couldn't find a certifiably "safe" Western restaurant.
It's different when you're here though. I do like Thai food as a general rule in New Zealand, but in Bangkok I have yet to find a single freaking Thai Green Curry, and even if i did find one on a menu i wouldn't be able to read it because it's written in Thai! It's quite a predicament as you can surely imagine.
So on that fateful night we were told by Nicola's uncle (who we've been staying with by the way) exactly what to order and how to say it. We eventually walked into this restaurant and to our dismay we were the only foreigners in the place. I swear everybody turned around and looked when we walked in the door. Luckily though, we had no problems ordering and the food turned out to be pretty damn tasty. It was very satisfying, and of course the beer was good (a safe Western beer of course, not a Thai one!).
As for the zoo, that was an extremely strange place. We were boating round this lake and then all of a sudden we see these gigantic lizards emerge right next to our boat! Okay, so that might be a wee bit of an exageration, but i swear we didn't know there were lizards in the lake when we embarked on our little paddle-boat voyage. Apparently they were monitor lizards. They were about 1.5m long, and according to the ever trustworthy Wikipedia they're part of the same family as the Komodo dragon. I defy you not to be more than a little freaked out when the Komodo dragon's brother pops out of the lake right beside your boat!
P.S. I thought the topiary animals were pretty nifty. In many ways they were a lot cooler than the real animals - they let you pat them for one thing.
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