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Sorry I haven't written in awhile! Now I have a lot to tell about. Monday James and I went to Lumphini Park as part of our park assignment but unfortunately it decided to pour with rain that day. (It's about 40 acres and the land was donated by some king or other.) So it wasn't very exciting. Not too many people out. It has tennis and basketball courts, a weight area and you can even rent boats for the small lake. We saw a monitor lizard but that was about as exciting as it got. I like our local park better. It's new and much nicer and had more of a community atmosphere. Of course it has the giant aerobic class which is awesome! There's also a fountain that is synchronized with music.
Tuesday was a fun but long and crazy day! We wanted to go to Wat Arun but the cab driver dropped us off at some totally different temple. I still have no idea what it was. It appeared to be under construction too so we couldn't even get in. We went in the shrine across the street and there was a wall there that seemed to be a mausoleum with pictures and offerings. Then we decided to make our way to Wat Arun on foot. It wasn't too far away but far enough especially since we didn't really know where we were going. We stumbled across Wat Kalayanim on our way and stopped there. It has the largest bell. There was a lot of construction going on there too! Weird. We finally go to Wat Arun and it is awesome! The tallest of the buildings has stairs and we were able to go up. They are steep and really far apart. Pretty scary but worse coming down!
From there we went to the Royal Barge Museum which was also an adventure to get to. The taxi could only take us so far and then we had to follow the signs through a canal neighborhood to it. The barges are pretty cool but I'm not sure it was worth the hassle of trying to get to it. From there we took a boat down the Chao Phraya River to Wat Pho which is the temple of the reclining Buddha and also has a massage school. But fist we ate lunch!
Wat Pho was also amazing. The reclining Buddha is huge!!! After we wondered around we went to the massage school and got traditional Thai massages. Awesome! Different from any massage I've ever had though. They kind of put you in different positions and the massage is more pressure and squeezing than rubbing. Pretty neat experience! Needless to say... we were tired, ready to go home, and a but Watted and Buddhaed out!
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This is so awesome. How long will you be there?
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