Sunday

We hired a driver for the day who was a cute thai man who loved talking to us. He told us how Thai people love America. He said that he loves the Beatles and named a bunch of other American bands and artists. He told us a joke... What is the difference between a snake and an Indian? A snake you eat first because Indian food is fast food…or something along that line. So anyways he was driving us to the floating market which is kind far away. So we stopped at the gas station and mom and I went to the bathroom…which usually isn’t so hard but this time it was. It was basically a flat bathtub on the floor and then there was no toilet paper but a bucket with water with a smaller bucket… yea it was not what we were expecting haha. And we also found out that the taxi there doesn’t run on gasoline like ours do but instead it runs on natural gas. They put it in under the front hood and its kept in back of the seats. They do this because it is a lot cheaper. We arrived and it was the coolest thing to go to. You pay to be taken around for an hour. Its basically a bunch of canals and a man in a long motor boat type thing there a people on other small boats, they kind of look like little canoes. The “stores” are on the side of the canal so if you want to look at something then the driver of the boat pulls up to the side and you bargain right there….bargaining is a little different in Thailand…you ask them a price and they say o I have a discount for you! And always take out a calculator and put down a price which is usually around twice the price they would sell it to you for. Then you laugh and say that its way above ur price range and then they ask you to type in what you want to pay and it goes from there. If you don’t give them a price and just walk away they usually drop the price to about half. Eventually they say final price and write it on the calculator, but you can usually get it lower. Ok so yea we tried different soups that were made by people on the little canoes and we had the most amazing one ever and then dad and I had the most amazing spring rolls ever. It was crazy, a different thing than I had ever done. Thailand is a place that is very different and I really enjoyed my time there. When our boat person dropped us off we realized that we were the only people who didn’t get to get up and go into the markets in the middle of the canal town area so of course mom complained to the people and we got an extra free ride! Our taxi driver came with us and he was so cute because he had never been to the floating markets and he was so excited, smiling and taking pictures and stuff haha. Then we went to MBK which is a shopping center but not ur typical shopping center… it was a mall but there were small tiny stores and you can bargain with them. One floor is full of technical stuff and there were ipods and fake ipods and stuff for sale, they were definitely cheaper but still not cheap enough to buy because there isn’t a guarantee that they will work. Then we went to the temple where there is a reclining Budha which doesn’t sound exciting but it was pretty amazing. The Budha was hugeeeee….BIG BUDHA!