Today we started the day off a little late not realizing that we were out at the night market until about 1:30 the night before. The night market is said to shut down at 10:30 but if the shoppers are still buying they'll stay open. And they do this every night, 365 days a year.
Matt was craving his bacon and eggs again so we had breakfast in the hotel - mistake. They had a great buffet but our deal at the hotel did not include breakfast and Matt couldn't into this one for free. The food we ordered was small and cold. Chelsea had a second breakfast done better after we asked.
After a swim and sun tan poolside, we ventured out to find sushi (in Thailand?). This place was recommended by our hotels concierge. It was inside a mall that had no windows and pretty much just electronics stores (chelsea did manage to find another pair of shoes though - on that note shoe sale at the Poulsen/Beckett household when we get back) and an entrance that looked like we were sneaking into the loading area - very odd. The restaurant was all you can eat in 1hr and 15 minutes. We sat down at our table to find a conveyor belt in front of us with tempura, gyoza, sushi, nigiri, fresh seafood, chicken, beef, and pork to cook in our boiling soup pots as in front of us. This was known as Shabu Shabu. What a dining experience - you just grabbed what you wanted and when you wanted. This was on my tops of food ever. Up their with the Benihana cooking right in front of us. We didn't make it the whole time as we were very full. Unfortunately as I was up getting a few things Chelsea ate two gyoza that were not cooked. She didn't know we needed to cook them in our boiling pots - the stomach also disagreed. She is getting better (24 hrs later) and a trip to the pharmacy helped.
After the enormous food we needed to walk it off and we sure did. We headed to the travel and trip agent recommended by Cal and Clair (they have been great with the recommendations so far). As we got there they looked closed but sure enough someone came out and opened the shop. Gotta love Thai people - very welcoming. We booked a Thai Cooking Class for the next day and not sure what else we'll get up to here as we are unsure we we'll head to bangkok for a few days or just fly in and fly out due to the unresolved conflicts in the city centre. We should know by Monday what the gov't will do. The Thais here say the "Red Shirts" (protestors) won't be able to close the airport and just stay away from the shopping and business district and we'll be fine. Bangkok is massive (17 million people) so there are many areas unaffected. We have some items on our list that are out of town so we may just do those.
Stay tuned... MISS YOU ALL SO MUCH.
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