But on a positive note good sleep solves lots of things! This morning we woke up to free toast with jam, omelets and hot tea for breakfast. Found an internet café down the street where I learned that gaming is a huge pastime for young men as a sat in a plush red chair next to a freshly whiskered adolescent and made internet business for 10baht. We decided to commit to the tourist plan, and started bargaining with a vengeance against tuktuk locals.
We ate a potato chip lunch at our fanned hotel room and decided to go to the international hospital for our last Japanese encephalitis vaccination. It was the most amazing hospital I have ever seen. The interiors seemed like we were walking into the titanic of banks and business; and color pallets perfect in the eyes of art students, sanitation an all time high despite the lack of the sickening sterile white and puke green feel of American hospitals. The efficiency of each floor was amazing. Open with space and air the floors were equipped with waiting rooms, doctor visiting offices, outpatient pharmacy and cashier all on one floor out of some 20 floors-and each one was designed this way. Our final shots, including doctor consultation was a total of 60$ in comparison to Denver Public Health’s 240$ for each dose of a two series vaccination. Cheapcheap!
To end a good day we experienced our first cheap but thorough Thai massage--a foot massage. Never have I experienced a foot massage quite like this, complete with Asian medicine and techniques. I would have given anything to have switched places to let my mom have the experience.
And Mom, you were right, my cute Sanuks did start to change color after a few days in Bangkok, but they were one of the smartest investments I can attest for for this trip. The other, my sleep sack.
After eating a local dinner we found a tuktuk to drive us home, it was my favorite tuktuk in 3 days. The tuktuk had been rigged so that the driver could press a simultaneous button as he was breaking which would trigger a screaming noise to compliment the force of gravity on his passengers. It was like riding the Halloween version tuktuk; it was silly and made me so happy at its kitschiness.
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