Saturday in Bangkok

We got up early, around 7:00AM, and took a taxi to the area of Bangkok know as "Phra Khanong". Ever trip to Thailand we go to where our apartment was when I made the trip here in the fall of 2006. At that time we paid 1700 TB (less than $50 USD) for an air conditioned studio apartment plus water and electric.

We had a morning ritual, walking to the baker that made raisin muffins. We would buy a bag of these cake muffins and then walk to the back side of the morning market and have coffee at a little shop with just one small table and two chairs.

When we arrived everyone smiled at us as we sang the "Good Morning Song" to them and had coffee and raisin cake muffins. When all the muffins were gone I would blow up the cellophane bag and pop it. It always makes a loud noise like a gun shot.

The cost for the trip including the 200 TB for the taxi, 20 TB for muffins and 24 TB for three coffees and 40 TB for a big pineapple all cut up was 284 TB or about $8.00 USD.

That was the big event for the day! We came back to the guest house and rested for the rest of the day. We were pretty tired from traveling yesterday as well as the temperature here being in the upper nineties with very high humidity.

Tomorrow morning we are going to the huge weekend market here in Bangkok.