Argh im not a happy bunny just wrote loads about Bangkok and then my computer crashed and i lost it all.

So il try again, got off the dreaded plane and waited for 2 hours in passport control before getting our luggage and heading to the taxi. The taxi took us to a street near our hotel and tried to get us to get out. We explained we are not going anywhere without knowing where our hotel is as we have big bags...by that point i had my big backpack my little one my handbag a carrier bag and my hoody...just call me bag lady. Anyway the taxi driver didnt speak english so got some guy from the street to direct us down this lane to our hotel... got there and got told they were fully booked! but we had made a reservation. luckily they were moving us to another hotel down the road, while we waited they gave us drinks which we thought were water turns out it was some sweet skanky drink that smelt like popcorn...will not be trying that again... the guy took my bag to walk to the other hotel so i took chars off her as shes a little weak even if she does have long arms and legs.

Got to the hotel and slept for 6 hours before waking up showering and getting ourselves sorted...seen a free bar so got some beers...however it wasnt free obviously but hey it was a good beer. Headed to the front of the place to wait for Brad and pong and had a beer there. It was some sort of religious day so we had to drink our beers in tea cups and when the police came we had to down them...not too much of a problem for me and char. Then got another one. Met Brad and Pong so happy to see Brad its been ages, he was a good friend through uni and wev kept in touch ever since. He teaches english in thailand something i may well be doing in a few months..

Anyway we headed out for dinner and had this soup called tom yung it was amazing spicy but gorgeous, also had like beef noodles (which i was later told was bufflao dunno why that freaked me out... think cos it took me like 20 years to try duck as i imagined the ones swimming in poole park). We went through a few jugs of beer (pong and brad treated us to dinner and drinks which we very much appreciated but didnt expect) There was a cockroach incident but we wont get into that. I saw my first lady boy and was made up hahaha Loved catching up with Brad and pong talking about our adventures so far and what theyv been up to. Then headed to a rooftop bar where me and char moved onto mojitos very nice ones at that and listened to amazing singer singing songs from incubus to james morrison the bands over here are brilliant. After that we went to a place where we ordered another mojito this time it was frozen like a slushie best one iv had loved it! brad had some sort of pancake so it worried me a little when he put chilli sauce on it, i was a little relieved when he said it was more like an omellette. Met pongs friend Hara and headed to a club, was very dancey buyt a good laugh and hara bought a bottle of vodka which we all made our way through while dancing around on stage.... Char and I bought jagermeisters but the girls couldnt do it so we did two...not as fun without redbull!

Char and I walked off to dance at the other side of the bar and when we came back pong and hara had disappeared we saw hara's bag on table so took that to give back to her and headed down koh san road. we were walking down the very drunkenly talking to people and chatting when brad thought it was a good idea to get atuk tuk home (we only lived round the corner) we all got in and literally drove for about 2 mins before we got off at subway (saw hara on way and gave her her bag back she was panicking as it had her key in it so lucky we picked it up really.. The guy wanted 30 baht for the journey i got out 40 and brad said dont tip him, at that he passed over 60 and said keep the change...i think he was alil bit messy and had no idea what was going on haha. We got a subway and headed into our hotel luckily no one was in reception so just snuck brad in and went upstairs. we got out 3 bottles of not free water before, later discovering there was 2 bottles of free water on side drunkards! We were trying to get brad to say try Chai like the guy on the train in india but he couldnt say it and it was cracking us up so much (prob had to be there for that one) We lay on the bad chatting s*** and being agony aunts for over an hour before brad fell asleep and me and char started to watch alice in wonderland before i couldnt take anymore and fell asleep. I woke up looked to my right and there was char looked to my left and there was brad for a moment i was very confused! Im not gonna lie i was not feeling great that morning so i got in the shower...i felt bit better so got back into bed...then the sickness came....

Went to the weekend market later on, man they sell some s*** there but also some awesome stuff saw some cute doggies for sale. Had an amazing lemon smoothie and then headed to a camera shop where i got my camera :) very happy i can take pics again. Chilled out at brad and pongs place then went back to hotel where we had some dinner watched man u game and had an early night, the next morning we were going to the grand palace. This place is amazing but a lot of effort got there and firstly tehy told us we cant go in till 2 as its only for thai people found out later that was just them saying it so they could take u in tuk tuk elsewhere for couple of hours, got in and queued up in the wrong queue finally bought our tickets and as we went to go in we were stopped. We were told by brad to wear "long pants" here so we both wore leggings and long sleeved tops just in case...apparently thats not good enough and out leggings were too tight. so there was somewhere we could rent trousers...we were told that would take an hour to wait so we got taxi back to our place and changed...when we finally got in it was worth it it was beautiful, pics are up on fb now. We met brad and pong and her cousin and went somwhere for pong to put a flower and stuff to the buddha. Then we went for lunch on riverside was really nice. Headed back to theirs to watch american idol and a nice cuppa tea. Soon enough it was time to say goodbye... sad times... Got taxi back to hotel, and packed as we were leaving the following evening at 6 for a nice 12 hour journey to chiang mai.

Loved Bangkok :)