Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Flowers for hours

The flowers of Thailand are beautiful and the variety amazes me everyday. Since today is my last day here I walked around my school to take some pictures of all the different flowers at the school. This ones for you mom.
Our school casually has an orchid garden
"Here take a photo of me and the flower."
I'm sorry I didn't take the time to find the names for each of them.

Monday, March 17, 2014

Chatuchak in 91 degree weather.

Before I left to go to Chatuchak this morning I tweeted, "Why am I going to an outdoor market in the middle of the day when it's supposed to be 91 degrees out? I have no gosh dang idea." That sort of sums up the trip without all the juicy and fun details. I highly recommend going to Chatuchak should Bangkok ever be your destination. At first I was expecting just a larger version of every other market I go to where the raw meat stall is directly next to the fresh fruit and veggies and across is a stall where you can buy cheap shirts that will fall apart in a month. Boy was I wrong!
This market is super cool. Its super easy to get to since its right next to a BTS stop. Everything is sold there from baby clothes to shower curtains to food to plants to all your woven needs and more.
The trees were in bloom and absolutely beautiful
Everything you could possibly want (and more) that is woven
Remodeling your bathroom, but don't have much money?
The creepiest guy selling children's items
The types of food sold were the kinds of food I (and I imagine all tourists) like to see at a market. Mostly because I don't have any need for raw meats and unprepared veggies and fruit. There was BBQ, deep fried everything that was then deep fried again, freshly prepared fruit on ice, crepes and waffles, drinks and then the most appreciated part were all the frozen delights like freshly dipped chocolate covered frozen bananas, ice cream, popsicles and what I like to call cold fruit and jelly soup which is exactly what the name implies. I got mango sticky rice, a chocolate dipped banana with nuts, watermelon and water. I sadly forgot like 4 times that I wanted to get a popsicle though.
The queen of the real sugar soda
Yum a thon
Seriously the best half a watermelon I've eaten in awhile
Looking to eat your weight in deep fried food?
Ice cream bars for the trendy folk
Unknown flavored tea and possibly juice and a heck of a lot of ice
Hey mango head lady!
Since I already bought all the souvenirs I was planning to buy (if you want anything tell me like now and I might still be able to get something but probably not), all I was initially interested in when going to the market was the food, but then I stumbled upon all the vintage clothing stalls and I was suddenly in trouble. I ended up not buying that much and it was all like incredibly cheap. Found two dresses and a skirt that literally smell like a grandma which I like to think reinforces that they are actually vintage. I finally found a pair of light wash Levi's that fit me like a glove and they were only $15! Sort of funny I had to come all the way to Bangkok for them. Also found a shirt that looks like it came from Africa from the brand Ethnic Labels. Anyway the vintage stalls were pretty cool, however, their coolness didn't quite translate into the pictures.
Thais sure love their prints
One thing that made me feel really good about myself was toward the end of my roaming I stumbled upon the Levi's stall and sweat was literally dripping off my face and all the hair around my face was soaked. I went to try on the jeans and was so sweaty I couldn't get my own pants off (sorry if thats too much information). When I was leaving all the girls told me I was beautiful and I was so shocked I said, "Thank you! I'm so hot!" as if that might help to explain that normally my hair wasn't that wet and sticking to my face.
Sitting in traffic the whole way home was certainly worth the trip.
I would love "The impression of espresso" thank you!
How convenient... I needed 117 million fake flowers.
Because if its not a ukulele you're looking for... maybe a bath mat?
Some really colorful fuzzys