Day 24 Wed 9/20
For the first time, Maggie woke up earlier than me. When I got up, we walked out to get breakfast and ran into a girl named Katie, who Maggie had talked to the day before about sharing a can from the airport. We ate with her and then got a tuktuk (the motorized carriage talked about earlier), named Maxwell. Our driver took us around Bangkok to temples, a mountain temple, a jewelry and textile factory (where he got free gas), and finally to the palace. Maggie and I hung out at AuBonPain while Katie toured the palace, then we all took a boat ride back. Maggie and I bought some tanks in the afternoon and went to a cafe for a bit. At night we met up with Katie and some guys from Scotland we met at a cafe earlier, Cambell, Andrew, and Neil, and had a few drinks and ate some street food. I had beef and pork satays and Maggie ate some pad thai. We added to more English girls to our group, Emma and Emily, and went to see one of Thailands famous ping pong shows. Of course you have to do some hard bargaining to get a good deal, and when you get in the tuktuk you're unsure exactly of the final decision, but uncertainty makes for a fun cab ride with a bit of screaming. Thailand ping pong shows don't consist of any typical game of ping pong. We witnessed girls do things with their yayas that I had never fathomed seeing in my entire lifetime. Filling up coke bottles, bouncing ping pong balls into cups, pulling out magic tricks, writing welcome, and blowing out birthday candles were just a few of the many marvels. By the time we made it home, the music from the bar below us had already ended, but we did get to see some street dancing from Thai boys, which made for a good video.
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