Hammocks, Pants and Elephants

Well i've been pretty busy so far this week. On monday we spent the day at Ayyutaya which is the old capital of Bangkok! It was soo hot on monday all of us were dragging our feet by the end of the day. Were started off at the Bang-Pa In Palace which used to be the kings palace...i think i cant remeber all of the history i took in in the last 3 days. But we wondered around there for about an hour and took in all the sites. It wasnt the most extremely exciting thing in the whole world but it was pretty cool to see. so after we wondered aorung in the heat for an hour we retreated back to the vans to head off to our next destination. Yayy lunch time! we went to a hotel near the palace that had a buffet for us..and alot of it of course...we are in thailand not having enough food is not an option. so i think we spent about an hour and half at the hotel eating and eating...of course all the exchange kids finished after one plate full while the thai kids ate probably about 3...and they are all sooo skinny!!! its not fair!
so after eating like elephants!!!...we went and saw the real thing!! YAYYY i was like a little kid in a candy store! i was soo excited about the elephants i wanted to like jump on one and run away with it! it was amazinggg! elephants are sooo coool! and i got to ride one!!! it was awesome they are super slow but it was still awesome! i think Simon and Dan thought i was like 2 cause i was acting like one...but are you surprised i mean its me and animals!! so i only went for a 10 min ride but it was sweet you can ride close to some ruins and take pictures so that was cool. it was only like 6 dollars i think haha! sweeet! i love how cheap things are here! but some how i seem to run out of money fast haha! the trips ive been taking this week cost a little so think thats where most of its been going haha!
So after playing with the elephants for about an hour we went to the market there! and i bought a hammock for a dollar! awesome! so we spendt about an hour there and then headed to one of the biggest reclining buddahs. Which was really cool to see you get to put little pieces of goal leaf on the arm and its good luck. so i did that took a couple pictures and headed back to the van.
Next we headed to the ancient ruins to take a look that was really cool. But sooo hot! i thought i was gonna die it was soo hot! ahh! so after wondering the ruins for an hour we gave up and headed to the vans where the air con awaited us! we drove back to bangkok after that. We made plans on the way back for the next day....
Tuesdayyyy a few of us gathered at paragon to hang out. We sat around talking for an hour before we actually got up and started to do something. we wandered around siam square for a while and went into a couple shops ten we went to mbk to do a little shopping. Some of the other guys had to go so we decided to take a break from walking and go to my favorite place...swensens!! ya ice cream! so we had some ice cream and then some others had to head out so then there were 3 haha.
we did some shopping and i bought some more thai pants haha. Yup pretty sure i own every kind of thai pants and multiple colors i think i may have to send home some of my pants that i brought here haha. Then we adventured back to paragon to watch an IMAX!! i love the imax its so sweet. We saw eagle eye which was awesome cause there wasso much action in it! Sooo funny story when we were in the imax and first finding our seats steph sat down in one and broke the chair hahahahaha it was sooo funny cause she was like sitting on the floor just killing herself laughing...i dunno maybe you had to be there but it was definitely a good laugh....her new nickname is "the elephant" hahah soo mean so its only to be used by us 3 haha. so that was a fun day just to hang out with everybody.
Wednesday was a day at the grand palace and the zoo! Wapa go or the grand palace was really pretty to see but it rained most of the morning so that wasnt cool at all haha. So we wondered around there for about 2 hours looking at everything taking pictures.. it was pretty cool but lots of the places you arent aloud to which is stupid but ok haha i understand. so that was really pretty. then we went to a wooden mansion that was...sorry to say but overwhelmingly boring hahah ya we all wanted out of there. Then we headed to the ZOO!! awesomee!!! haha i was again like a ittle kid in a candy store haha i was real excited to be at the zoo and just see all the animals. It was awesome tho i got attacked by a money at one point haha my camera and hand got a little to close to the cage and when they grab they hold on for dear life jeeeezze! put i think the all time high was that i found little shetland ponies haha wooooooo and i got to pet them! even better! i miss my horses :( haha wednesday was ok but was not the most exciting. other then the zoo of course haha.
Thursday was a day of shopping again with my host mom. let me tell you going out with her at the mall is pretty sweet we shopped for a while and i bough 4 more pairs of pants.....haha wooo and then we stopped and got a massage and then went back at shopping and then ate and then shopped again haha it was a relaxing day haha. o dear all in all the weeks been fun and this weekend Bryan and i are headed to korat for a night so that will be fun haha
well that all for now so stay tuned for more adventures :P
Xoxo