We sat down at the table and one of the Thai managers came to us and said: “Would you like a breakfast buffet” Indeed we did! 250 baht for both of us – buffet with coke. Making a quick conversion we realized that we only paid 67 rand for both of us. Just got to love that exchange rate!
As we finished our breakfast we went out to have a smoke, we thought by ourselves what are we going to do till 2 pm in the afternoon??? So I said to Brian let’s take a walk and go explore Bangkok. That said we left everything at the hotel (with the help of the VERY friendly doorman) and started walking. As we walked we realized that, that was not the best decision we made in a heat of 45 degrees Celsius and we were wearing jeans… so we only went to the 7/11 to buy some coke and more smokes as we ran out of smokes.
We got at the hotel and the manager asked us do we want to take a swim upstairs. We looked at each other and said: ’’Why the %$#@* didn’t you asked sooner??!!”
So we started our day of with a big hot bang when we arrived in Bangkok, and finally checked in to the hotel. When we got our room of course the first thing we wanted to do = sssshhhower!!!!! And after that my words to Brian: “DUDE I’m off to bed now” left us in the bliss of dreamland from about 2.30 pm to 5pm. My stomach (that has a whole life of its own) told me it is time for McDonald’s - the McDonalds that I saw earlier that day when we were on our way to the hotel. Off we went starting to explore and hopefully find the McDonald’s (I was not ready yet for the weird food that Asia has to offer). After walking for a while Brian (it felt like a half marathon to him) said: “ Dude where is the McDonalds that you saw ’’ I was hoping he would not ask THAT question… cause my internal GPS was still kinda screwed in the new city. We both agreed - okay we are lost in this big city and decided to call in the help of a Tuk Tuk (Thai taxi).
We showed him our small card with the hotel address on and he said he will have us back at the hotel in no time. He overheard Brian mentioning to me that we wanted to go to the McDonald’s and now we have to settle for something else. Very excited the Tuk tuk driver replied from the front: “Oh go McDonald’s…” We didn’t even let him finish before we replied with a (very) desperate “YES!” (By this time I don’t know what was louder – the sound of the little engine or the sound of my over-hungry stomach). Finally got to the McDonald’s and the Tuk tuk Driver offered very helpful: ‘’ I wait here. You go quick’’. We got our McDonald’s after staring at the menu for hours deciding what to get. (The typical situation where one takes longer to decide what to eat than what it is going to take to actually eat it). We thought that we will have to walk back since we took so long, but nope - the tuk tuk driver waited on his spot and took us back to the hotel (we realized that we were not lost since it was only about 2km’s from our hotel that the guy picked us up). After stuffing ourselves with Western food we were ready to really go and explore ‘’The Big City ‘’. The first destination to go explore would be a night market that we saw on our way back to the hotel. (No we have not learned our lesson of going to places “that we saw” on our way somewhere.) Brian suggested we practice our Thai bargaining phrases.
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