Monday & Tuesday

Monday

I woke up at 6 a.m. had a snack, went back to bed, and slept in :) I woke up with a slight earache and a super stuffy ear. Not fun. I had to keep asking people to repeat themselves because I just couldn’t hear anything out of my right ear. We just lounged around the apartment until around lunch.

Monday is my dad's day off....so today he's our tour guide. We had lunch with my dad at the restaurant near the church and headed out to the Vimanmek Mansion. It’s an old palace made of golden teakwood for King Rama the 5^th. The architecture was beautiful. The whole place was built without a single nail. There was lots and lots of beautiful and valuable gifts from different countries displayed. It was quite interesting but we weren’t allowed to take pictures inside. Boo. We got some pictures outside but it just wasn’t the same. However, It was fun just to walk around and go to a different part of the city.

We had dinner with 2 of my uncles and their wives who weren’t at the dinner Sunday night. The food was once again, fantastic. As we were leaving the restaurant, Brian didn’t see one of the steps as he was coming down and rolled his left ankle. It’s not a bad sprain but we got ice on it quick after getting home. There’s almost no swelling after we iced it but we knew that we’ll need to take it easy the next day.

Tuesday

My right ear was driving me crazy and I wanted to make sure that it wasn’t anything serious so I went to the doctor. My mom had called one of the private hospitals near our house to check the availability of the ENT doctors before she left to go to work and left me the information. I called a cab and headed to the hospital. It’s the hospital I’ve been to as a kid, so when they asked if I’ve been there before I said yes. Sure enough, they still have all my medical history there! :)

I have to say I just love the whole medical experience here (granted I know it’s a private hospital so it probably isn’t indicative of all the medical facilities in Bangkok.) I got to see the ENT almost right away, maybe a 10 minutes wait as best. He checked my ears and nose and throat. It turns out that my right ear severely impacted. We walked over to another room, the doctor performed the procedure to unblock my ear with this tiny vacuum tube and all was well once again! They even had these 2 screens that I could see inside my ears as they were performing the procedure….gross.

I got back around noon. Brian and I decided to walk over to Siam Paragon for lunch. We had a hard time deciding what to eat. There were just too many choices! We ended up with a hodgepodge of things. They were all yummy!

After lunch at Siam Paragon, Brian said he’s up for a walk over to MBK to go see a few of the camera stores he’s been reading about….so off we went. We walked around and found a few things that Brian was looking for but we decided to wait and do some more research before making a purchase. There are tons of places across from MBK that are tourist stuff (like the Jim Thompson House, Bangkok Cultural Arts Center, etc.) but Brian didn’t feel like walking that much so we plan to go back there on Thursday.

When we got home, the internet was finally working again! So we got on and checked our email, fb and updated the blog. Then we went to meet Neung and Care (my childhood best friend and Neung’s fiancee) for dinner. Brian and I walked to BTS (the sky train stations) and took the sky train. We met at the BTS station near the restaurant. Care spotted Brian immediately as we were walking down from the train! Care and I had so much to talk about, we just picked up where we left off!

Neung and Care treated us to a delicious DIY BBQ dinner since Neung knew that it’s Brian’s favorite! It was fantastic. We had a lot of fun cooking and talking and eating. Care and I had so much fun talking, I felt like I might have neglected Brian for a bit during dinner. Of course when I looked over to Brian, I knew that he was just so occupied with cooking and eating that he didn’t even noticed. I forgot to say that it’s all you can eat. We were so stuffed!! After dinner, they walked us back to the BTS station and we were on our way home. We got in around 10 and we were done for the night!

PS. pictures are coming soon. It's taking a while to process them!