Jan. 9, Bangkok
We met the most energetic waiter / chef at the trainstation cafe in Vientainne. What a hoot! We got into teaching us how to make his own special vegetarian soup and spoke a mile a minute. The train ride to Bangkok went smoothly. The waiter had made us dinner to take on the train and given us extra Beerlao and water. We slept well and arrived at 6:30 AM.
It was Sunday so we went back out to the weekend market, at the Mo Chit sky way stop. We joked that we went to "More Shit" to buy ... :-) We did. Came back with bags of stuff. The prices there are unbeatable - about 1/3 to 1/4 at the other markets. Afterward we went to check on our wedding rings that we had made and were very pleased. Venus Jewelry on Wireless Road right next to the US Embassy came through again. We highly recommend them for custom work. When Richard saw Liz's ring, he said "You are your mother's daughter after all". It is definitely more bling bling than she would have guessed she would have, but Jeff kept upping the size of the diamonds surrounding the star sapphire. Jeff's star sapphire is huge as well - 9.04 carats (Liz's is 4.67).
Monday was fun as well. We went to Pinky's tailor (again another fantastic tailor recommendation from Liz's friends in Saudi) to see Liz's wedding dress. It's perfect. We bought the fabric in Varansi India and had it tailored. It's red!
Afterward we went by the Jim Thompson teak house. The American that really started the Thai silk business and made it world famous by introducing the fabric to Vogue. From there we hopped back on the super fast, super soaker, small speed boats and cruised the canals in search of the perfect wooden Spirit House. Jeff has been on the look out for one and we think we found it so will need to go back for the final bargaining. We joke that Jeff's turned part Indian while in India as his bargaining in amazing. He bargained for Richard on a few items and was able to get down the price tremendously. Of course it took about 30-45 minutes each time, but seeing that none of the 3 of us have an income that's fine.
Sadly Richard took off last night. We had a wonderful time and were able to go back to Cheap Charlie's road-side bar for one last cheer before he took of.
It's been so wonderful to hear from friends and family throughout our travels and to see Liz's family as well. Now that everyone's gone we are getting homesick and really miss our kitties. We are sort of thinking if we could get home earlier we might change our flights. Our surfboards are there and our friends. We inquired with Northwest this morning and it didn't look like we could. We'll see. If not, we'll be on the night bus to Krabi.
Miss you all and look forward to seeing you soon. Love Liz and Jeff
It was Sunday so we went back out to the weekend market, at the Mo Chit sky way stop. We joked that we went to "More Shit" to buy ... :-) We did. Came back with bags of stuff. The prices there are unbeatable - about 1/3 to 1/4 at the other markets. Afterward we went to check on our wedding rings that we had made and were very pleased. Venus Jewelry on Wireless Road right next to the US Embassy came through again. We highly recommend them for custom work. When Richard saw Liz's ring, he said "You are your mother's daughter after all". It is definitely more bling bling than she would have guessed she would have, but Jeff kept upping the size of the diamonds surrounding the star sapphire. Jeff's star sapphire is huge as well - 9.04 carats (Liz's is 4.67).
Monday was fun as well. We went to Pinky's tailor (again another fantastic tailor recommendation from Liz's friends in Saudi) to see Liz's wedding dress. It's perfect. We bought the fabric in Varansi India and had it tailored. It's red!
Afterward we went by the Jim Thompson teak house. The American that really started the Thai silk business and made it world famous by introducing the fabric to Vogue. From there we hopped back on the super fast, super soaker, small speed boats and cruised the canals in search of the perfect wooden Spirit House. Jeff has been on the look out for one and we think we found it so will need to go back for the final bargaining. We joke that Jeff's turned part Indian while in India as his bargaining in amazing. He bargained for Richard on a few items and was able to get down the price tremendously. Of course it took about 30-45 minutes each time, but seeing that none of the 3 of us have an income that's fine.
Sadly Richard took off last night. We had a wonderful time and were able to go back to Cheap Charlie's road-side bar for one last cheer before he took of.
It's been so wonderful to hear from friends and family throughout our travels and to see Liz's family as well. Now that everyone's gone we are getting homesick and really miss our kitties. We are sort of thinking if we could get home earlier we might change our flights. Our surfboards are there and our friends. We inquired with Northwest this morning and it didn't look like we could. We'll see. If not, we'll be on the night bus to Krabi.
Miss you all and look forward to seeing you soon. Love Liz and Jeff
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