One night in Bangkok,

(1st July – 2nd July 2007)
Our first morning in Thailand, only half a day in Bangkok.
I’m very tired as we only got a few hours sleep before picking up dad from the airport at 3ish am on the 1st July, then getting to the airport at 12ish in the afternoon to fly out.
Decided that I love the temperature, best way I can describe the heat is like sitting in a luke warm sauna, not as humid as I recall Hawaii being.
Not taken any photos yet.
Write thoughts to add on later. The big red man statue on the left and green man on the right just before going through to the immigration line for processing were cool. Travelators like I remember LA airport having.
On the way to the Indra Regent in the shuttle we passed what can only be heaps of stray dogs, noticed lots of dogs in a pack. (I counted 5 dogs all sitting down together).
Also noticed on the way here that they drive on the same side of the road as us (Left side), the drivers seem to look at their indicator switch on their cars and shrug their shoulders, not knowing what to do with it, because Richard and I noticed no one using it to change lanes. And for such a big city they still have over head power lines (In most areas and suburbs in NZ they have all be put under ground).
When we got to the hotel, went out to see if any of the markets were open (had read info online about the pratnum markets being 24 hours), toktok man wanted to show us round, first suggesting he take us to a restaurant then trying to suggested we go to see a strip club. (shivers), this was all a bit too scary for me.
Can see a vast difference between those who have money and those who don’t already.
Found a store, bought a 80gm bag of salted cashew nuts for 40 baht (basically $1.60 NZD), and 50 gms of honey roasted peanuts for 10 baht (40 New Zealand cents). Richard and I ordered in, the Resturant took a while to get someone to get back to us for the “24 hour room service” But he apologized for the delay when we made our order and delivered. My cheese and mushroom omlete was devine, and Richard had a club sandwich. And this only came to 550 baht.($22 NZD), By the way they tip people here, so we are picking up on this strange custom, you don’t want to offend with too small an amount but you want to keep your spending money also.
Still need to get a power adapter so trying to store memories and make sure I save battery space. ------ Need to get photos.
10.50am (NZ time) 5.50am (Bangkok time) and I will be going down at 6am to book for a tour called the “City & Temples tour” hoping to get some great photos.