So yea, Bangkok is intense. We met up with our Philly friends Will and Colleen who were hanging there before heading to a wedding in Malaysia. We booked a place close to them which was in the Sukhumvit business district and WOW Monday morning rush hour is a different animal than what we're used to. You have to be very very VERY careful walking the narrow and sometimes non-existent sidewalks. 

Our whole group went to the Chatuchak Market which is never ending stalls of every product you can think of to buy and so much street meat deliciousness. They even have rows upon rows of pets including HUGE Chinese mountain dogs and so many tiny fluffy puppies. Why are there so many fluffy animals here? It's too hot! I don't get it.

They ghetto rigged a cooler out of a box and plastic bags from 7/11, got silly and hit up the Maui Thai fights. Fight gambling happens on the third tier balcony where the locals sit and you could see these child fighters looking their parents for what to do next depending on how the gambling was going. They then hit up the infamous redlight district of Soi Cowboy to see a sex show where very talented ladies performed magic tricks from their nether regions including the classic never-ending hangkerchief and most impressively shooting darts to pop balloons midair! They finished the night with karaoke and luckily they all made it home alive. 

We took it easy the next day with a ferry boat tour and visit to Wat Pho. On the boat you see so many different styles of life on the water. The rich, the poor and everyone in between. A father and son were waist deep in the river, chisel and hammer in hand, fixing the support pylons under their home. We both instantly thought of Robby V and how many other dads are teaching their sons the "right way" to fix things. 

Wat Pho is home of the reclining Buddah and man it's ENORMOUS. Buddah even has enormous pillows to prop up his head. I was loving the ceramic and reflective glass tile throughout the temple complex. It's so huge and so beautiful it was hard to capture. We stumbled upon monks chanting and were able to sit with them. And naturally, we were well behaved.