Day 4

Day 4 -
Today we went on a tour starting at 6:30am. We got on a bus with about 8 other people and headed to the Floating Market. The tour guide was very funny – he had the most interesting accent we had ever heard!! We drove for about an hour and 15 minutes to get to the market and enjoyed seeing the huge city along the way. We got on a boat and rode for about 20 minutes down some canals where we could see more of the traditional Thai homes. When we arrived at the floating market, they let us off the boat and we walked around and shopped for a while. It was a very fun experience. We were finally able to taste a few of the snacks from the vendors . We had been warned not to eat food from the vendors in Bangkok as their booths and food are not clean. After some shopping time, we got back on the bus and went to a wood working village. We were able to see the workers making the most detailed and incredible wood carvings that we had ever seen. If we’d had more time, we might have been tempted to order some of the beautiful furniture. The prices were expensive, but reasonable considering the detailed work that went into the pieces.

The next stop was supposed to be a temple, however, as there was a festival of some sort going on that day, we were unable to find a place to park the bus. The traffic on the street was unbelievable!! We drove on next to the Rose Garden. It’s a place that actually used to be a garden with roses, but is now a resort. The big attraction here was the buffet lunch, elephant show, and Thai cultural show. We enjoyed all of these things and the girls were even able to ride on an elephant which was fun for them.

We headed back to the hotel and arrived about 5:30. Kelsey and I went out to pick up a few last shopping items. We came back and enjoyed a wonderful massage at the spa in the hotel. There were massage places everywhere in the malls that were tons cheaper, but we were too nervous to do those there not knowing for sure how they’d be, so we decided to spend the extra money. We definitely enjoyed ourselves. We went to the bakery in the hotel to get dinner and saw the staff rolling out the red carpet for a wedding that we had seen in the pool area. We waited for a while to see who was coming, but got tired of waiting. We later found out that the King’s daughter was attending the wedding and we were sad that we hadn’t waited to see her!! We went upstairs to eat our bakery food and then went to bed.