This morning was so hard to say goodbye again, I cried so much; I now have really painful migraine!
We hate goodbyes and this trip has already had too many of them. It's going to be so quiet without them all, we will have to get used to it all over again. Lump in my throat as I'm writing it :(
Once we waved them off we got in a taxi to the bus terminal and grabbed the next government bus to Pattaya for £3 each for a 2 and half hour journey so not too bad.
The journey went pretty fast, we got a truck to our hostel (jomtien hostel)
Pattaya is busy, very built up with bars, restaurants, tattoo and massage parlours and lots of bars with ladyboys or thailand 'chicks' stood outside bars in skimpy dresses and very high stripper heels on trying to seduce the men.
I already know this is going to be the perfect place to do some people watching! (What I do best)
In near enough every bar or restaurant or street there was an old fat bald man with a thai girl at least a third his age on his arm. At home these men would look perfectly innocent and fragile on their own, I would probably feel sorry for them wandering around on their own and hobbling along with a walking stick! 'Yuk-a-vee' dirty mean here!!

This evening we went to Pattaya's No.1 ladyboy cabaret show, arrived by two motorbike taxis haha that was an experience, got there faster though! The theatre was huge, it had fountains and of course the picture of the king outside of it. We took the VIP seats so we were closer to the stage to try and figure out what they where, haha!
Their costumes where gorgeous, I was expecting them to be tacky and not fit them but I was completely wrong! They looked so much like women it was bizarre! Their costumes were dazzling and they had huge head pieces on. There is no way I would have ever thought they were men if I'd walked passed them on the street which is kind of freaky and scary!
There was an old one that would come out when the others were changing costumes, he done a holly valance - kiss kiss show with balloon boobs and a Tina turner - rolling on the river set, they were hilarious! the lip singing was so on time, and the face expressions he would pull were so funny! Taking the piss really out of himself.
They all came out the front later on where we able to take photos and if you had individual ones you would have to pay... Scott couldn't wait for one! Some of them definitely did look like men in their face and body structure around their arms and shoulders they were quite square. But the majority of them were absolutely stunning; I was gobsmacked at how womanly they were, the ones Scott had a photo with were gorgeous, I couldn't help but stand and gaup!
On a mission to find some mannish and less womanly looking lady boys - the seedy looking ones in other words.
We headed for the 'walking street' Pattaya beach road is huge and has so many bars an restaurants, this place is definetly a beach resort for families and couples not just Percy old men in seedy lady boy strippers bars. We were driving along the beach road, spotted some really pretty prostitutes, actually dressed really nice (even though the dresses were showing their bums) they looked my age maybe younger, two old men stopped looked them up and down and smiled and started talking to them... 'BOFF' why do these girls put theirselves through this, surely they realise now that their life isn't going to be all great when they marry them and they aren't all loaded or an OIL man (Old ill and Loaded) and that their life's are going to be crap, like slaves basically. I doubt the thai men like the fact that all these European and American men come over to take their young woman off of them!

The walking street was absolutely crazy, it's full of bars and some restaurants; stripper and lap dancing clubs, gentlemen clubs and bars with the little thai girl/boy outside in tiny hot pants (that they just as well not have anything on) and crop tops trying to seduce the men to come inside. The amount of older men strolling up the strip, stopping and looking the girls up and down and raising their eyebrows before they slowly shuffled in to these places where incredible. It's like being at Disney land for seedy old lonely men!
There were plenty of Chinese marching in flocks with their designated flag holder!
**Scam alert** loads of touts trying to get you in their stripper's bar to watch ping pong shows, 500B per person with a drink - when you get inside they ask for more money for the drinks until a man with a baseball bat arrives. No thanks pal! I screamed at one bloke because he get trying to pull us into his bar through these dark stairs, I screamed "NO! Leave me alone I do not want to see your ping pong show you *fBomb* idiot!" With my infamous scowl.. He left then.
Didn't help that every card with the show's itinerary and explicit photos on Scott kept pointing at and laughing, they thought that we wanted to go to it then!
The further up the strip you get the more ladyboys you find we think; well they started looking a little more mannish anyways. However, we stopped at a bar to people watch - of course! And there was only one girl stood out on the street trying to lure the men in, she looked so feminine in a cute little black dress with cream heels, short curly hair and even her face was petite. She was only a bloody man, with a plastic vag-a-jay!
The working girls piled in and to be fair some of then were really pretty but then there were some that were a little how you say ruff! There were three to begin, you could see his tiny little winky through his incredibly tight spanks and illuminus short short dress. *BOFF*
Watching the men, being drawn in by these lady men not knowing what they actually were was mad, the one bloke stood around waiting for about 20 minutes to see if he could get the ladyboy to 'go for a walk' with him.
One lady boy had THE skimpiest shorts on with THE biggest camel toe and was asking Scott to go upstairs... Hahahahaha! Chatted up by a lady boy! And another one with a plastic foof was king giving him the seductive eyes and licking her lips when He thought I wasn't looking. They'd giggle when they got caught in the act, I was in fits of giggles! Hillarious that they're men. Argh so weird.
More lady boy watching tomorrow!