13 February - Bangkok, Thailand

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Early am… Bright eyed…















Today we were on an organized tour ‘Bangkok in a Day’. Quite the day…. First the 2.5 hour drive
  • Grand Palace and Emerald Buddha
  • Canal and Chao Phraya River
  • Wat Arun
  • Lovely catered lunch at the Royal Orchid Sheraton… a little shopping and then the LONG ride home… (can’t lie I think we all nodded off)

The trip was not without its excitement!! The Grand Palace was CRAZY busy… lots of folks… we had to stop on the way in to buy the ubiqutous elephant pants… since a bunch of folks didn’t read the ‘Currents’ regarding covering you knees… and they weren’t all women. Liz’s Family (and maybe Nancy’s too) don’t be surprised if elephant pants are in your future. Here are some photos of the Grand Palace and the Emerald Buddha (truth in advertising he is made of jade… not emeralds). Here are some photos of the Grand Palace… etc.


Mural wraps outer walls Ramakien


Emerald Buddha from Doorway
Guide showing Buddha Outfits

A close up… but go to the link above

 










While we were admiring the details of the architecture… our new friend Emily lost her husband Andy (they are from Georgia)… Andy is hard to lose… he is at least 6’4” carrying a camera on a stick… wearing ubiquitous elephant pant … Emily turned to me… and said ‘have you seen Andy’… so the entire group started looking for Andy… apparently this is not the first time he has been ‘lost’…  not to worry we found… and he got a ‘major talking to’. 

The next excitement was the ‘canal and river tour’… Nancy the germaphobe was aghast at the water… and all we tried to do was not get water in anyplace that could promote parasite growth.. we are happy to inform you… we did not get sick


Wat Arun… was a bunch of young folks dressed up in traditional outfits.. taking photos… 

Enamored with the food at the buffet… we missed the best shopping… here is the bag I bought… we could have bought more… but NO time. 


No after pictures of us on the bus… we were spent

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