Weekend in The Big City

We had a long weekend (Queen's Birthday) so we went to Bangkok for the weekend since we had spent no time at all in the city-proper. 

Vince taming the fish.

Had no idea what it was....until I realized it was written on the package. A Moon cake....from China.

Khao San Road  aka Backpackers alley but pretty quiet during the day.

Vince relaxing before his tattoo:) He got the full body art in case you are wondering.

Where the heck are we? Loving GPS and unlimited internet!

Queen's birthday is a huge deal here. .

Sydney Opera House?

The water taxi. You have to be fast getting off or they leave without you. We saw a group of three get split  up but people were helping them figure it out.

Tuk-tuk which apparently can drive on either side of the road and have no rules. We used a few and had the "textbook" experience (scams) of Taxis not using meters and tuk-tuks trying to charge 2-3 the regular rate. Pretty funny.  The little experience we have gave us the confidence to know what the cost should be.

We tried the City Express train that only opened in Jan 2012 and is a fast route to/from the airport. We tried it and got off 2 stops early planning to take a taxi home from there thinking it might be faster and we are near the airport. Well, this was the stop where we got off......deserted. Hopped back on and went all the way to the airport where we wanted to check the bus info for weekend getaways.

View from the station. They told us that there is always one taxi but it was a little deserted for us.

We made rice in the new rice cooker which is really big and can cook for an army. I went to the market  in the promising storm and bought dinner. Thought I'd try something different and I bought a fried chicken...like KFC. Figured we'd see what it was like. Okay, so what I really bought was a deep-fried chicken carcass.....but I remembered the hot sauce.....so funny and when I realized, it was too late. That story should get a few laughs tomorrow. I'll bet we were supposed to eat the bones. So dinner was like this:
Hors d'ouvres-Chicken batter picked from carcass.
Entre-salad.
Main dish-rice.
Dessert: mango

Will do better next time.