Hard to believe I've been here a week already--it's flying by, probably because I'm so busy. I've already seen three of Fodor's Top 25 To Do/See in Bangkok, a book that Mark's parent's gave me. Yesterday we saw the Grand Palace where the King used to live, the wat that houses the most sacred Buddha image in Thailand, the Emerald Buddha, and another wat that houses the Reclining Buddha, which is 46 metters long and 20 meters high (to give you an idea of how big that is, one of his feet is bigger than my twin bed at home). I'm going to try and post some pictures, but I have a hard time with that so far, so we'll see.
Last night one of the guys in the house, Alex, and I went to the Thai massage parlor down teh street and got hour long massages for 150 baht (about 5 dollars). It was amazing--kind of like Western massage, but they also stretch your limbs out, which I loved. I'm sure I'll be back several times before I leave Bangkok. The women at the massage parlor were so cute. They speak enough English to have a little conversation with us, and they loved my hair cut. One said she wanted to follow me to America so she could get the same hair cut (so good work, Julia :)) We'd planned to go out for drinks or something after massages, but we were sooo relaxed that we ended up just coming back to the house to hangout in the air con and watch Babel. And I won't lie, it was great to have some down time.
Today it's off to the weekend market, and who knows what else the weekend holds!
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