Woke up way earlier than I wanted to feeling like I had been ran over by a tuk-tuk. Attempted to go back to sleep but no go. Bev and Fraser were meeting up with the RCI rep, something that has to be done everytime they use the service, always trying to sell them something else. That was at 10am, Fraser had said he didn't want to waste time on his vacation doing this so had said that they should be done by 11am. I floated down to the restaurant and had breakfast. Returning to my room around 10 I noticed the maid was there so I went up to the pool. ANother lovely sunny warm day in Bangkok, sun felt really good and I was beginning to feel a bit better. I went back down to my room before 11am in case they finished up and tried to call my room.
So I laid there, half dozed, half watched tv. By 1:30 they hadn't called so I decided to hang out by the pool which I did until 4:30. Went back to the room but no messages. Not sure what was going on so I grabbed my laptop and went to the lobby bar. Had a soda and some shrimp rolls and while I was sitting there Fraser popped up. He said they were with the RCI guy until 3:30, he actually di have a good deal for them. When they finished with that they thought they left a message for my room but I never received it. The guy had suggested a nearby place for massages that was way cheaper than the hotel so Bev was there and Fraser had just done a little shopping. Fraser said that he and Bev had taken advantage of the tailor shop in the hotel and had been measured for clothing. He said come on over and he'll have a pair of pants made for me to replace the pants he spilled wine all over on the plane (and to which were now stained). Sure, off we went. Well, I figured what the heck, may as well have another pair of pants and some shirts made or two.
By the time the threads settled I had ordered three pairs of pants and five shirts. Four shirts were silk and one cotton. Fraser had to try on the jacket of the suit he had ordered. Bev turned up and started talking about what she had ordered and showed me the material she had chosen which were in a book as opposed to being out in bolts like I had chosen. I changed my silk shirts to the silk from the books, much nicer. Figured this was as good as anything to spend my vacation fund on, the 3 pants and 5 shirts costs 350.00.
While all this was going on we decided to take in the Kathoey AKA Ladyboy Show and dinner at the Calypso Caberet
Grabbing a taxi we arrived at the hotel where the show was and bought some tickets. We had a little over and hour before the show so went off to go find some food. Turned down a side street and walked a couple of blocks before finding a corner with some impromptu restaurants sent up. One had a sign Rice Noodles with BBQ Pork 30 bahts. That's all we needed. Sat down and the lady made of three bowls of noodles, veggies, broth and strips of pork. On the table were the normal condaments: sugar, dried chilies, peanuts and fresh chilies in vinegar. You flavoe it as you wish. It was really good. As we were sitting there eating a fruit cart went by and Fraser said Look! Dessert! but when we finished he was no where to be seen. A few minutes later as we walked down the street the fruit cart turned another corner so we grabbed watermelon, pineapple and something else, cost us a whole 30 baht. So, dinner and dessert cost a total of 120 baht, all of about 4.00 for the three of us!
Arrived back at the hotel just before they were letting people into the show. From Wikipedia:The term can refer to males who exhibit varying degrees of femininity — many kathoeys dress as women and undergo feminising medical procedures such as hormone replacement therapy, breast implants, genital reassignment surgery, or Adam's apple reductions. Others may wear makeup and use feminine pronouns, but dress as men, and are closer to the western category of effeminate gay man than transgender. Regardless of their gender presentation, their sexual orientation is towards men, who are not considered to be gay.
At the end of the show the ladyboys were lined up along one side so people couple have photos taken with them so since Fraser hadn't taken pictures with the tigers we made sure that he had his photo taken with a ladyboy. That done it was back to the hotel and bed. Gee, second day in a row with no massage. Can't have that happening!
Posted by chezbasson at January 11, 2007 09:45 PM