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Published: February 16th 2008
Khoa San Road
Bangkok's Bourbon StreetJenny had to work this morning so Nolan and I got up early (relatively speaking) and went to an Aussie sports bar to catch the Superbowl. We had a lot of fun at about 8 am watching the game, although we only saw the second half. That was the most important part anyway. There was actually a British Saints fan at the bar who had never seen the Saints play (live or on TV), but he knew all about them and even had a jersey. The game was very exciting so it was a great way to start our morning. We went back to the hotel to wait for Kimani and napped until he showed up. We decided that we all needed massages so we jumped into a cab and head for Khoa San. Unfortunately, we ran into the notorious Bangkok traffic and spent almost 45 minutes getting no where. Finally our driver got a phone call and said, I can't take you any further, wife in accident. That was great English considering he ignored all of our other questions. And so we got out of the cab. Where? We have no idea. There was a ginormous market so we took
The Korean Bar
Best Seafood in Bangkok a stroll through that, but didn't see one falang(foreigner) and still had no clue where we were. One of the many beautiful things about Bangkok is that there is not alot of crime. It was so safe to walk around day and night. It was really incredible for a city that large to be so safe. I guess since the population is 98% Buddhist, the violence is nil. After our massages, we ate at a place called the Korean bar and had fresh prawns, squid, and fish and waited for Jenny to meet up with us after work. Nolan saw one of her friends Nang who was a DJ/bartender and we hung out with him. That night Jenny's friends Naomi and her boyfriend Ought picked us up from the Korean bar and took us on a night time tour of Bangkok. We drove around the Grand Palace and then went to a beautiful rooftop restaurant that over looked the Wat Arun, Temple of the Dawn. It was breathtaking watching the boats going up and down the river with the temple in the background, and of course, the food was amazing. Nothing has been bad so far. After that we hit
Nolan and Kimani
Chillin' at the Korean Bar up the Reggae Bar and the Harley bar (2 of Jenny's favorite spots, and luckily they are right next to each other) and had tons of fun listening to Reggae. Kimani and Nolan started freestyling and it was hilarious. To bad I can't upload videos to this blog; oh wait I think I can! While we were hanging out and talking two little girls came up and were selling roses. One little girl imparticular had a whole lot of game. She challenged Nolan to a thumb wrestling contest and pulled out 100 Baht (about 3 dollars) and slammed it on our table. So Nolan took the bait. The little girl was so intense and totally beat Nolan is just a few seconds. She took Nolan's money and then gave everyone at the table a rose. She was pretty amazing. Kimani wanted to hear some techno, so we headed to a club, unfortunately it was already closed, but they let us come in anyways and have quite a few beers. Oh, I forgot that back on Khoa San we saw Jenny's Capoeira (Brazilian martial art) teacher and one of the other instructors and convinced them to join the party. So there
Beth and Kimani
Yea! Kimani made it. we are sitting a closed Bangkok bar with 4 Americans, 3 Thais, 1 South African, and 1 Brazalian, all trying to communicate in all of our languages. Luckily Portueguese is kinda like Spanish, everyone knew a little English, and Jenny and Naomi knew some Thai. Althought our conversation was limited to the smallest words and a lot of hand gestures, we "talked" late into the night. Can't we all just get along; well, we did just fine!
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Jessica
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Thumb wrestling
I love that the little girl gave everyone roses after winning the thumb wrestling match. Overcoming the language barrier was no mean feat with that group. You have to watch the movie L'Auberge Espagnole when you get back home. You'll love all the different ethnicities communicating in Spanish because it's the only common language, since they're all exchange students in Spain.