Our last day in Bangkok, and we wanted to sleep in. Sleeping in for me meant that after being up in the middle of the night because of the loud people below us, I woke up at 6:00 am and could not go back to sleep. Not a good start for the coming days when I'd surely need the sleep.
I tossed and turned in bed until 8 when I finally got out of bed and ready for the day. DZ and Leah were still sleeping, but they eventually got up by around 9. We packed our bags, and were out at 10:30 - I think the latest we ever left any hotel. We left our bags in their luggage check for the day since our flight was to leave that night at 2 am.
We went to the malls, and looked around at the spectacle that they were. The first mall, Central World was probably 7 stories, and reminded me of Phipps plaza - all pretty fancy stores. The food court had a ton of restaurants. So many in fact, that we didn't even know where to begin for lunch. Eventually though, we each picked something and ate. After lunch, we headed outside the mall to a salon. All three of us got manicures and pedicures. The salon was recommended by Naomi (alana's cousin we met the night before), and they were pretty good. I believe we each paid $8 for the mani/pedi.
From there, we went to the other big mall right down the street, called MBK. This mall was much lower level stores than Central World - aka - we could afford stuff there. But we were trying to save our last few baht to afford the rest of the day's plans, dinner and the taxi ride to the airport, so for the most part, we didn't buy anything - shocking, I know!
We took the skytrain back towards the hostel and decided to stop at an internet cafe to trade pictures. After a half an hour of getting errors, we finally left, and headed out to get a final Thai massage. It was rush hour, and so all the massage places had a wait, but after about 30 minutes, we got in, and got a last massage. It's really incredible how these little Thai women who each probably weigh no more than 100 pounds, can give these amazing massages. Thai massage is thought of as a necessary activity for physical and mental health of Thai people, and so even the poorest people treat themselves to massages.
After getting our massages, we stopped for a second at the market by our house to get a couple last minute souvenirs - as if we didn't have time to do that before. For dinner we ate in a Lebanese restaurant. Before dinner, we each decided what we'd get, and since we knew the cost of the cab ride to the airport, we took out exactly enough money for dinner and the ride. As it turned out though, some of the dishes we'd planned on ordering didn't come with necessary components (like hummus came without pita - silly, I know), and so once we'd paid for dinner, when we combined our cash and all of our coins, we were at about 290 baht. Uh oh.
We went back to our hotel and used the showers (they allow you to use the public showers if you stay the night before, knowing full well that many flights leave in the middle of the night). We caught a metered taxi to the airport, and dumped all of our money into his hands. He seemed a bit upset since we were definitely paying him a little less than it cost, but we didn't want to take out money again and then not be able to change it at the airport.
So by the time we got to the airport, we had zero baht, and 2.5 hours to kill. We survived, and even ran into the girls that took the cooking class with us in Chiang Mai (they had a flight at the same time as us). At 1:20 am we boarded the flight to Shanghai.
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