November 14, 2008 – 10:30 AM – New Siam II.

Today is our last full day in Thailand. Our plane leaves tomorrow at 6:40 AM. I am eating breakfast by myself again because Kevin needs to sleep in because he stayed up late, like 5:00AM late. You can guess why he was up.

I am feeling his pain too though and my body is definitely slowing down. Pretty close to grinding to a halt actually. Kevin and I have been going full speed trying to do and see as much as we can everyday. Today I think that I am just going to relax.

Yesterday we went to the National Museum of Thailand. I am not particularly into museums, especially not when I am hungover but we checked it out because our travel book listed it as a “must see.” The most interesting thing at the museum was probably the mother of pearl artwork, bowls and sword covers and a kings chair. What is funny about the museum is that as far as we can tell this is the national museum, with history and art and stories about how good the King and Queen are, and all that. The actual funny part of it is that most of the printed English descriptions and plaques have very bad spelling and grammatical errors. This is the national museum. They could have gotten any English speaker to look over things and check plaques for spelling errors before engraving them in stone. Pretty crazy.

After the museum we went and ate lunch with a chicken and headed back to our hotel for some brewskies. It’s what we do best. We met up with Kylie and went to kick boxing again also. It was cool.

After the fight we went to another market. It was a good one but we didn’t stay very long. I bought another miniature tuk tuk made of beer cans. I bought one a couple days ago from a homeless person but the new one is higher quality with more detail.

We decided to eat some dinner and role back to the hotel. It was about midnight. One the way back we met a speed demon tuk tuk driver. The streets of Bangkok were clear and he had a newer tuk tuk with lots of power and was taring through the streets like a maniac. Kevin thought we were going to die but I was buzzed and enjoyed the trip thoroughly. Also forgot to mention that this tuk tuk was hooked up for us by a tuk tuk pimp who we guess ran a group of tuk tuks in the area. That was about it for that night.

Being in Thailand has made me appreciate how good my life in the US is. Here you see people doing shitty jobs like delivering ice to street carts or pumping gas yet they all have smiles on their faces. They are probably making a shitty wage but they look happy. I complain about my job but it is not as bad as some of the things I could be doing over here. In the beginning of this trip me and Kevin talked about how happy we were to be getting away from our jobs but then began discussing that it things could be worse, we could have a really horrible job like someone who does donkeys at a donkey show for a living in TJ. That would be a truly bad job. Sorry for that description but it's real. Well, I can also be thankful that I am not cooking pad thai at a street cart for twelve hours a day next to a transvestite. But hey, at least they’re smiling. Random thoughts.