Bangkok Week 13 September 25, 2008 Fun around town. Most notably, perhaps, the first roller coaster ride in Thailand! The Grand Total (TM) is now 292. View fullsize The (poor) showgals who had to put on a dance at the entrance to the 2nd Hand Home Expo we attended. View fullsize We found sprinkles (a.k.a. "Cake Decors") for our otherwise-bland ice cream. View fullsize Clearly an improvement! View fullsize Family friends who came to visit; the wife is originally from Trad. View fullsize For some reason, she felt like she was being dwarfed. View fullsize Meeting some Brown friends at a swanky cafe downtown. View fullsize Downtown shopping complexes at night. Nope, Bangkok has no residents. View fullsize Advertising for the Bangkok Film Festival in the escalator atrium of a huge mall downtown. View fullsize Riding up one of the many spiral-oriented escalators. View fullsize Can you guess what prolific store this is? View fullsize An outdoor photo exhibition downtown, at night. View fullsize We finally splurged and bought the book we've been eying for months. View fullsize The world's most hi-tech Granny. View fullsize Welcome to Mika's Hazardous Hair House... View fullsize ... where the tools are complex ... View fullsize ... and the damages irreversible. View fullsize The resultant hairdo! Looks much cooler, no? View fullsize We headed out to Seacon Square... View fullsize ... a huge, sprawling mall on the outskirts of Bangkok. View fullsize There, you can play Canival Games... View fullsize ...and more importantly, stop at DQ for a 25-cent cone. View fullsize But most importantly, it's home to Yoyo Land... View fullsize ... home of one of Thailand's 8 roller coasters! View fullsize Our tickets to the ride. View fullsize "I can't believe I'm doing this." View fullsize Whoo hoo! We're not even moving yet! View fullsize The roller coaster goes through the mall's HVAC system. View fullsize This is 100% genuine enjoyment. View fullsize Also at Yoyo Land, your kids can run around blindingly colorful padded obstacles... View fullsize ... dig up fossils ... View fullsize ... or ride the world's most frightening log flume! View fullsize I chose to combat the bug-eyed pirates, instead. View fullsize The mall had it's own little mom-and-pop vegetarian food stall. You can see grandma in the background. View fullsize Although it took about 10 minutes for grandma to serve the food, it was tasty and meat-free. View fullsize We couldn't resist the sale on little pastries. View fullsize The flower-lined strip-mall area where the mall's located. View fullsize The mall is too long to fit into the frame. View fullsize This area is where lots of new homes are going up. Welcoming, isn't it? View fullsize The bus we took back home. View fullsize And the 6-for-B42 pastries on which we deliberated for 10 minutes back at the mall. View fullsize They didn't stay on the plate for long... View fullsize ...but long enough to enjoy the last of them after dinner the next night. View fullsize Breaking News! This parcel arrived from MEXICO in 3 business days! View fullsize Mmm, otherwise prohibitively-expensive Cocoa Ball cereal on sale at the Western grocery store next door. View fullsize Fueling up at a (random vegetarian) restaurant before venturing to Immigration to deal with the visa. View fullsize Some glutinous rice appetizers from a vendor across the street. We're still not sure what was in them.
