"One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster..."

It was more like two nights in Bangkok...but this was sung throughout the entire weekend! Friday night- Halloween!!! Okay so we had to work with what we had right?? So that limited our costumes a bit. Three of us were ajarn pirates, Griffin was a vampire, and Lauren L was a cocaine addict supermodel. Hilarious!

We ended up heading to a tex mex place for dinner...cause we all needed something different. MMMM Sangria. Anyways we befriended the manager there who told us about a dive bar with cheap drinks and a costume party. YAY! We immediately headed there. We sat in the bar drinking our two for one beers and playing a drinking game only to realize 2 hours later that the party was upstairs. HA. We head up there to find out the free beer just ended. Oh bummer. But we made friends and had a great time.

Saturday we sleep in (aaaah) and Shannon, Lauren M. and I plan on heading out for a bike riding tour. We get to the meeting spot only to find out we needed to make reservations. We put in our names for Sunday. Instead of cabbing it back to our awesome hostel we decide to walk. After about 45 minutes of walking we are all sweaty and gross we stop in a little tea house to relax and get a drink. We sit down and grab some English papers and start flipping through them. I found an advertisement for the 6th Annual World Film Festival and notice there was a free showing of Martin Scorsese's film 'Shine the Light' (about the Rolling Stones) at an outside area by one of the malls (Siam Paragon). So we agree to head there. We got there early enough to get seats. I was envisioning movie in the park but not at all, this was pretty sweet...we got free popcorn, several free beers, and a free movie! As well as a free laugh or two at the expense of the drunk guy dancing and singing along with the stones.


Sunday we along with Jenn and Lauren L head to take the bike ride. We start off at the southern tip of the city and took a boat across the river into what they called the Jungle. Lets just say it was beautiful, green, and breathtaking. For 70% of our ride we were on these narrow little paths above water. I thought I was going to bite it on the turns. Thankfully no one from our group fell...Jenn almost did but didn't. We stopped at the Bangnamphung Floating Market. Where I bought a coconut tree plant/seedling. YAY! After a quick stroll through the market we hopped back on the bikes and rode to Sri Nakhon Khuankun Park where we fed the fishes. Then we rode back into the city. It was so much fun and we found out that this company does several overnight biking trips too! YAY!

After our afternoon of biking we went to Tesco (the Thailand version of Walmart) bought some necessities and headed back to campus! Time to get ready for our first days of teaching!