i was bad this week. i went out on a wednesday night for "ladies night" at coyote, which meant all you can drink, free margaritas, from 6-8. it was also to meet up with amit, who i went to college with and with whom i share many mutual friends. hes backpacking through southeast asia and arrived in bangkok the night before, so meeting there just seemed like the perfect combination of the two.
i went straight from tutoring, and anticipating such, i left my bag with my computer at school. i figured id be out and not at home so i wouldnt be needing it that night anyway, and it wouldnt be such a hassle that i would have to carry around.
because i went straight from tutoring, i got their a little early, but found tasha and we got a table. it was before 6, so all the waitresses were trying to get us to buy drinks while we were waiting, even though we all knew that wasnt happening and that we were there for the free drinks. the food isnt bad either, but hey, its a ploy to get people to come in, and it was working because it brought us in.
after just over two hours and two of our friends being asked to leave by the manager, it was time to head out. but i wasnt ready to go home. amit and i had just begun talking and catching up, and some other people were staying out, so we ventured down the streets of silom and ended up at patpong. if you care enough, you can google it. this is what i will say: by the time i was heading home, it was nearly 2.
needless to say, i was not planning on going to school the next day. it turned out that when i woke up, the cold that i have had off and on for the last three months was in full force once again anyway, and so i 'decided' then to take the day off.
this was a great day to do it. meghan had also taken off for personal reasons, and amit was in town. so the three of us met up back in silom and from there decided to head over to see the jim thompson house. meghan had already been twice, but was ecstatic to go again (actually it was her suggestion), and it was something i had been wanting to see but never gotten around to. jim thompson was an american who basically revitalized the thai silk industry and then mysteriously vanished at the age of 61, after a monk had predicted years before that great danger would come to him at that age. his house is an architectural dream to look at, and he was an antique collector, so it is now a tourist site.
from there, we were planning on going to lumpini park, something else i had yet to do, but it was getting really hot out and so we opted to introduce amit to thai massages. we were back in the silom/sukhumvit area and went into one of the cheaper places we saw. when we got there, we were told there were no female masseues available. ok. we didnt really think anything of it. but afterward, we were all just a little weary of the massage we had just gotten. meghan and i had to apologize for giving amit such an awful intro to one of our favorite things in thailand.
we finished off our night with a trip back to coyotes again so meghan and i could split some nachos. this time though, we did not consume any margaritas :P
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