what an amazing day! i woke up at 11, ate lunch at Hard Rock cafe and then out of the blue, this woman comes up to jamie and i and tells us how pretty we are and askes us what we are doing in bangkok. she then proceeds to tell us about this great place to go to have clothes made...well jamie and i broke down and decided to go. the place we went to sells directly to manhattan...that is actually the name of the store. but to get the full affect of this womans converstaion, she actually talked to us for 30 mins! she called us a tuk tuk (he was cute and off duty and spoke awesome english), she got us this tuk tuk to take us to the manhattan store, and to the mall for 60 bhat! thats about 1.20 american! he was so awesome! so we go to this store and everything revolves around you! i actaully got a trench coat...double breatsed, classic cut, for only 210 american dollars! its going to be a camel color, and it is made just for me!! i have a fitting on wed. (sorry mom, but this coat is amazing!) our driver waited downstairs for us for 2 hours! then when we came out he asked us to visit his friends shop for 5 mins and he would get free gas...so we did. it was a jewerly shop with unpolished stones and we talked for a bit, but it seemed sketcy so we left.

our tuk tuk driver told us that he is in the thai airforce and has had training in the us from our army! thats how he learned to speak english. he asked us where to go next and jamie needed a camera so off we went to the mall...this mall that speicalizes in electronics and it was overwhelming, but our tuk tuk driver came shopping with us! all of this took place in about a 4 hour period. so finally we had to ask him to take us home and he didn't even charge us...he said..whatever you feel like paying...we gave him 200 bhat, but now i wish it had been more because he was really a good sport puttin up with us all day!

QUOTE OF THE DAY:
jamie "i have died and gone to barbie heaven!"

<3J