So after a satisfyingly lazy 2 days in Pattaya, I got myself to Bangkok on Thursday to see Claire before she left back for Canada on Friday. We'd been apart for 5 days, but for both of us it seemed like sooo much had happened. She had befriended a Scotsman named Seb in the airport (poor bloke lost his passport and she, being the wonderful "get 'er done" Claire, helped him in his frantic panic...call the embassy, file a police report, get an emergency passport, etc). Anyhoo, he came out with us to a rooftop patio, which was a lot of fun. There was a live band playing, a man and a woman who did a fantastic job performing all the great standards (Give me one reason, Iris, everything by the beatles, etc...). The woman's name was Earth and was only eager to tell us when we offered to buy her a drink "I'm 100% lesbian!"...haha...hoo boy. Seb left and Claire and I spent the next few hours talking until the magical twilight and had a fun time getting home down Khao San Road (Toronto seriously needs to get some street Pad Thai carts...street meat got nothing on this stuff!)
On Friday we went shopping and I dropped a GRAND on a new wardrobe. A 1000 bhat of course connverting to somewhere btw $30-$40 cdn. 3 new shirts, 3 new capris...how can you go wrong! love it! I decided to catch the bus to Huahin in the early afternoon so we said our goodbyes *single tear* and I reached here after an uneventful 3 hour bus ride...I've come to appreciate uneventful travelling on public transportation...you don't want events to happen in the Thai countryside...
We had a prayer for Diwali when I got here and it was great chatting for a few hours with everyone...getting used to this pace of life :)
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