Well it certainly has been a while. King Bhumibol never looked so good on paper as much as he did in my wallet. Pay Day! Finally! Time for some traveling. This weekend, Heather and Brittany made their way on over to Suphanburi. Catie and I did some cleaning for their arrival and was so excited when they got here! We ate some delicious chicken with cashews and drank some singhas for dinner and tried to get to bed early for our site seeing adventures on Saturday. Saturday morning, bright and early 8.30am we met Marty, Belinda and Jen at school and hopped in our rented van and started off the Wat Muang (Biggest Sitting Buddha). Marty, Belinda, Catie and I have been there before but it is surely a site you can see more than once!
After the Buddha, we headed off to the Zoo & Aquarium, which was definitely the best part of the day! Only 20B (.57) entrance fee and we got to see some amazing things. Meerkats, tigers, orangutans and lots more. But the best part of the day was we paid another 20B to feed and hang out with baby Tigers! It was like playing with large cats. Once the lady handed me the bottle, one tiger started drinking and the other was trying to knock it out of the other tigers mouth and started whining. They would wrap their paws around the bottle and jump on our laps. One started biting Marty's shoe and my bag. It was really amazing.
We also got to hang out with an Orangutan named Jumbo. He was the friendliest and cutest orangutan I've ever seen. After walking around the zoo and aquarium for a while, we head over to the 100 year market. I only bought a few pieces of jewelry and a hand made wooden jenga set. But it was nice to walk around and see what they were selling. After the market, our last stop was the Chinese Dragon Temple close to our house.
After we got back home, we ordered some pizzza, and got ready to try our luck at a Thai night club, which apparently we have in Suphanburi. It was definitely interesting. And we were the only foreigners in the place. There is nothing quite like walking through a sea of people in really dark lighting, but since you are the only blonde in the building, being stared at when you walk by. We had fun though and met up with some of the other teachers we work with. Well we have next monday off so long weekend! Which means some more beach time!
