2 days in Bangkok and still alive!

It's been a jam packed 2 days in Bangkok with many adventures and near death experiences! We really hit the ground running and started exploring right away. We saw the Grand Palace, took a river taxi, walked many miles, ate at the delightful Cabbages and Condoms restaurant (a MUST for anyone visiting this wondrous city), took the sky train and metro, and booked train and plane tickets. Today we were equally as productive: we moved guest houses to the delightful Sawasdee House, proceeded to walk at least 10 miles all the while getting lost in Chinatown (1000x more stressful than SF Chinatown, we can't wait Shanghai!), wandered into shantytowns under the highway, drank many bottles of "government water" aka "G dubs," fell in love with Jim Thompson and his house, ate absurdly spicy tom sam (papaya salad), got free drinks at random Irish bar, went to a ping pong show during which Trish got hit in the leg with on object shot from a lady's nether regions and after which we almost got killed by the crazy scam artist lady pimps running the show who tried to charge us $75, and capped the whole night off with a death defying tuk-tuk ride across town! Clearly its been wild!

We have a few notes: 1) Bangkok is an Asian Buenos Aires 2) it's ridiculous that there are several Dunkin Donuts here yet none in San Francisco (side note, we spit a chocolate munchkin en route to the ping pong show and it was heaven) 3)we really can't stress how far we have walked in the past few days in absurd heat and humidity (we smell and look good!) 4) we passed up free MANY free shots are the aforementioned Irish bar with the owner in favor of going to said ping pong show 5)about the ping pong show; everything you may have heard about these spectacles is 100% true; ladies shot ping pong balls AT US with their vajayjays, tooted their own horns and blew up birthday cakes. 6)Trish would like to mention that our $15 a night room closely resembles a Kimpton hotel room (no roaches this time only weird markings on the walls!).

We will post pictures soon. You all need to come experience this absurd city for yourselves, its really hard to convey what it is truly like. Now we are going to go drag our weary, sweaty bodies to the bar next to our guest house after Trish thoroughly washes her foot from the ping pong show incident. Tomorrow its off to the huge weekend market and then Sunday we are going to the Tiger Temple then its off to the beaches in the south! We will post from the beach if we don't get eaten/malled by the tigers!

xoxo
T&L

PS random friends from our guest house gave us a random bottle of Thai whiskey, we are apprehensive about drinking it, any tips?!

Safe and Sound and Smelly

Greetings from Bangkok! We arrived late last night after many hours of flying, helped out by many sleeping pills and sushi at the Tokyo airport (It was good but Naked Fish Happy Hour is so much better according to Lauren)
Our little love nest, down a urine-scented alley, is quite cozy and clean, minus the gum on the sheets Lauren found when we got into bed. We were also greeted by a smushed cockroach on the floor probably left by the cleaning group as a "welcome to Thailand" present. Despite all this we are loving life, loving Ali the Guest House front desk man, the cab drive that sang Jason Mraz with us, and the fact that 7-11 has fountain soda and breakfast for $1.
Just wanted to let you all know we are safe and sound. Trying to book some flights right now, and debating heading to the Tiger Temple. We will be in contact in the next few days unless we get eaten by Tigers at the Temple.
Time to go sweat some more so hope everyone is enjoying the snow on the east coast and fog on the west coast. Sending you rays of sunshine and pad thai!
xoxo,
T & L

on the plane!

About to takeoff!! Will be eating sushi in tokyo in 11 hours, just in time for dinner. We will post once we get to Bangkok. If anyone has any trouble reading the blog or commenting on it please let us know since we're blog virgins. Gotta turn off the Blackberry now. Next stop asia!
Xoxo
T&L
P.S. No more texts please. We appreciate the love but can't afford the international charges with our $10\day budget.

Less than 24 hours to go!!!!

After a fun and exhausting weekend we've been crossing everything off of our "Things we must do before you leave the country" list and are finally setting up our blog! Thanks to everyone who saw us off. We experienced enough rowdiness, nakedness, and general tomfoolery to at least last us our 48 hours of travel. Our plane leaves tomorrow and after a sushi stop at the Tokyo airport we will be arriving in Bangkok around the stroke of midnight local time on Wednesday. We're excited for a few days of hustle and bustle and ping-pong shows in the big city before embarking for the beaches of Khao Lak and meeting Steve of Fun 4 Kids to start our volunteer project. If any of you have any "must do" tips for Bangkok please let us know ASAP. 

Now we must keep packing although we are just planning on bringing bathing suits and oversized sunglasses since we plan to dress each other in ridiculous knock-off designer duds from the markets of Bangkok. Will be in touch once we have recharged and gotten our bearings. 

And.......

Please remember: During these tough times, if you feel the need to just get away, or your company decides to "let you wander" please feel free to come on over. Thai massages, our beach bungalow, som tam, and endless sunshine are just a plane ride away!