Saw Some Old Stuff.

Lets see some old stuff! Ayutthaya is our plan. It's one of the old capitols of Thailand from around 1300-1700. We wake up early and get breakfast at the coolest breakfast place ever! Well I don't know about ever, but there is a serious selection of breakfast foods from all over the world. So we're really excited. The room only came with two free breakfasts so we sneak mom in, we then get caught and mom leaves. After sneaking out some yogurt and pastries for mom, we take a taxi to the train station.

Bobo is a poser

100 cups of guava juice later...

For 45 baht we get three train tickets to Ayutthaya. The train leaves and then 20 minutes later it stops at some random stop for about an hour. That was kind of a bummer, but we bought some pineapple to munch on in the meantime.

We finally arrive at around noon. After learning when we need to catch the train to go home, we go out and try to figure out what we want to see. Wait what are we even supposed to see in this place? Ruins right? All of a sudden some tuk tuk driver comes up and shows us this map. He says he can take us to 4 different ruin locations for 200 baht per person and get us back in time to catch the train. Mom was hesitant because people here are always trying to rip tourists off, but I figured heck lets do it because we have no idea what we're doing.

On the tuk tuk

The first place called Wat Phra Mahathat is pretty impressive with tons of restored Buddha statues everywhere and some pretty huge ones at that. At the top of the stairs of the temple you could buy some gold leaf and apply it to various buddha statues inside the temple. So in other words there was a lot of sticky gold leaf flying around everywhere and a lot of people in a tiny room putting sticky gold on old stone buddhas.

Bobo matched the ruins

Buddha city

Which one is not like the others?

I didn't know cats could wink

To the elephant camp! Bobo was super excited to ride elephants. Like talking about it endlessly. We arrive at Wat Phra Ram and pay 400 baht each for a 15 minute ride around the area. We climb up the "elephant platform" and get ready to go. Mom and Bobo start getting nervous, but then they are on the ellie and smiling so much. The drivers take us to the photo opportunity then keep repeating 'tip' and we all play dumb like we don't know that he's just trying to get mom to give him more money and finally we start our ride back and while getting off the elephants he tries to get us to tip them again. We get kind of irritated like dude lay off, but you know we play it cool.

Ride on!

Smooches!

Wihan Phra Mongkhon Bophit is the third place and home to the largest bronze buddha that was restored. So we took our shoes off, walked into the building, looked at the buddha, 2 mins later we turn around and walk out. Ladies try to rip us off some more. 1000 baht for a postcard? Yeah totally going to pay that lady. So we get back in our tuk tuk and go to the fourth place.
At Wat Mahathat there is an entrance fee for foreigners, but by this time we are kind of fed up with paying all these apparent "foreigner" fees so we act like we're part of a tour group from France and walk in with them. There were tons of ruins as with all the other places, but the coolest thing was the buddha head in the tree branches. All thats left of that dude is the head.

Some old stuff

The ransackers always behead the buddhas

Tree root buddha face

We see all of this and get back an hour before the train comes. The ruins were super cool, but eventually you've seen one brick, you've seen them all. At 3:30 we leave on the express train and get back at 5! It was amazing. I slept the whole way almost. Thanks Bobo for your shoulder and lap to lay on.
Time for some shopping. We go to the high end mall food court for dinner and eat at a place similar to Whole Foods then continue shopping around. Mom goes to get her first massage in 10 years and Bobo and I go get ice cream from 7/11.

Free cotton candy to win a ticket to the One Direction concert