Monkeying Around the World

Ivan, Jennifer and I went to get breakfast on December 23, 2008.  The free breakfast at Phranakorn Nornlen is organic.  It’s great food. The menu changes everyday.  Ivan found out recently that his brother was coming to visit Bangkok soon.  He’ll be arriving on the 24th.

We got into a taxi.  We were headed to the Siam Paragon to do some Christmas shopping.  The traffic was a bit heavy.  There’s lots of Christmas decorations around. 

There were environmental ones like a tree made out of CDs or one made out of Coca-Cola cans. 

Ivan and Jennifer went to a sushi buffet for lunch.  It’s shabu shabu style.  There’s conveyor belts that brings the meats, fish and sushi around to the customers. 

You can put the items into your soup and cook it.  They ate a lot of food.  I had a banana and chicken sandwich at a restaurant in the mall.

Ivan went his own way.  Jennifer and I went shopping for Ivan.  I did get a chance to shop on my own for a short time.  The mall is really big.  There’s also another mall right next door.  We shopped for two hours.  We all met up afterwards.  We went to the Siam Discovery.  Ivan bought a few items. 

We were all tired from walking so much.  We walked around the area to find a massage place.  We all got a thai massage.  The place had Ivan and Jennifer wear this yellow shirt and pant set.  The thai massage is good.  It can be a bit painful at times though. 

We took it easy for a few hours.  Ivan and Jennifer had a tuna sandwich at the hotel.  It was good.  I had a banana pancake with extra bananas. 

That night, Ivan and Jennifer went to Joe’s bar and had a few drinks. Jennifer sure giggles a lot when she’s had a few drinks. 

We went downstairs on December 24, 2008 to get breakfast.  The menu consisted of rice salad, cornfield, guava sauce and apple juice. The food was good again.  We chilled for awhile. 

We took a taxi to the Khao San Road.  We walked around browsing the souvenirs.

We walked to May Kaidee’s Vegetarian Restaurant.  Here we had some good vegetarian food.  Of course, I had to add banana to my rice dish to make it satisfactory for me. 

Later on, we went back to the hotel.  Neal, Ivan’s brother was arriving soon.  His girlfriend Nom lives in Bangkok.  We saw them at the hotel since they were checking into their room.  It was nice for us to see a familiar face.  Neal came with two of his work friends Aaron and Rob.  We planned to meet shortly to go out. 

We relaxed in the room.

We took two taxicabs to the Khao San Road.  We went to the Khao Sarn Center for dinner.  Ivan got the green curry this time while Jennifer got the red curry.  I had the banana noodle dish.  There was lots of beer drinking by mostly everybody.  I wish I could have joined in.  Our next stop was another bar.  We stopped by Gazebo and smoked some hookah.  There was a band there that sounded okay.  We went to the nightclub Bossy.  The music there was pop, dance and r&b.  Ivan and Jennifer enjoyed dancing around.  The nightclub was filling up with people.  I danced on the table so I wouldn’t get stepped on.  The club had a big raisedwalkway with stripper poles.  Lots of people danced on the walkway.  We had a fun night! 

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