It's now 3am here and we're 70 min into the world cup final with the score still 0-0. We are both kind of surprised we're still awake but we pretty much tailored our day around staying up for this match. We slept in a bit and then did a little workout on the treadmill and elliptical and then finished in the pool. After that Ton and his dad took us to the train station to inquire about train tickets from Bangkok to southern Thailand. Thanks to his dad we now have tickets both to and from Surat Thani (one way didn't have openings in the class we wanted but somehow he worked his magic and got us tickets!)
Then they dropped us off at Lila massage again and we treated ourselves to the 2.25 hour combo deal for 500baht (~$15). It started with a 30min foot reflexology massage followed by maybe an hour Thai massage, 15 minute head massage and finished with a 30 minute hot compress massage. The hot compress was an interesting experience but both of us had to squirm or ask them to move them a couple times because we felt like we were getting burned! Those compresses were HOT! After our massage we grabbed Kho Soi for lunch and walked back to Ton's house where we did a little more planning both for our 6 hours in Bangkok tomorrow and for our 4 days in the south.
Around 6pm Ton, Michelle ad I headed out to grab dinner at Salsa Kitchen and stuffed ourselves with delicious mexican food. After dinner we went to the Sunday night market which was packed with people! Both sides of the street and the middle were jammed with vendors selling all sorts of stuff. Michelle found a cute hand made t-shirt and we found a couple of little gifts as well. At the daily night market (practically deserted since so many people were at the Sunday market) we actually found a woman who was selling duvet covers and pillow shams. We had tossed out the idea of trying to find that here since Thai silk is nice and reasonably priced (and since ours is sooooo dirty) but until tonight we'd only found square pillow cases and bed covers. We looked at a bunch of them and debated the pros and cons of having to carry it but decided to buy it...it remains to be seen how well it will fit in our backpacks! We walked all the way back through both markets because we were all still feeling full from dinner and because we needed to kill more time or we knew we'd never stay up for this match!
We watched the first half of the match from a bar near Ton's house (lots of Spain fans there) and decided to head back here for the second half which I'm very glad we did especially now that the match has gone into overtime! I've been cheering for the Netherlands just because my parents are in Amsterdam right now and I think it would be fun for them if they win. =) I'm just ready for them to score so we can go to bed! =)
Tomorrow we'll finish packing and head to the airport. Our flight leaves around 12 tomorrow. Our big plan for tomorrow is to go see a movie at one of the fancy Thai cineplexes (Matt's suggestion) and then take an overnight train to Surat Thani. We don't know where we're staying yet or how great our internet options will be so it might be a few days before we can update.
Signing off with 15min still to go in overtime!
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