Sunday Solace

Among all of our transportation nightmares in Bangkok, today has been great (so far). That doesn't mean we haven't been lost today, but we did make it to Church. The ward was a good size filled with expats and people from all over the world...reminded me of the demographics of Brooklyn wards. Church was great for so many reasons...

1. after driving around in a taxi for a while and wandering on foot for about 20 minutes...WE FOUND IT!


2. learning from past experiences, we left and hour early and made it ON TIME! in fact we were even EARLY! Just enough time for me to speak some French to a man from Paris


3. we went to the English ward so WE UNDERSTOOD IT!


4. AIR CONDITIONED!

After church we came back and are now taking it easy for a while. After reading the tour book on Thailand about Phuket and the southern beaches, I think we are going to change most of our itinerary in order to make time for bungee jumping, jungle zip lines, mountain biking, scooter rentals, kayak tours, and more. Should be awesome. As for the rest of the day we are going to ride the boats on the river to a highly recommended Indian restaurant and then head back down the rive to see the Wat Po (I think it's this one) Temple of the Dawn. It will be nice to get out of the dirty city and on to see more of the countryside and the cultural things.

One funny note is last night when we saw Pirates (not worth it), I failed to mention our mandatory 5-minute 'paying respects to the king' prior to the starting of the movie. Out of nowhere everyone all stood in unison while there was a video playing making him some god. Felt like a dictator. All rise....