Bangkok in the daylight

We are ready to try out our superb knowledge of the rail system and head out of the condo and take the other way out of this neighborhood. As luck would have it, we get to pass over a canal, exciting....until we get there. The smell is powerful. The street lined with food sellers backed up against this sewer-canal, an amazing concept. Blessedly, the walk to the train is just a few minutes.

We immediately try to buy a multi-day pass, only to learn they have one day, three day or one month passes. We choose the 3 day for 300 b, $9. As we are in the process of the transaction, one of the workers who speaks English comes to talk to us. After learning the pass does not include the Sky Train, but only the subway, we decide this will be useless and are going to purchase only a single trip ticket. Hmmmmm....not so. The man has already started to give us the 3 day passes. He can't unsell them. So we buy the one he has already coded. That makes it ever more so useless as everything we are planning do in the next 3 days is together.

We are frustrated and leave with a bit of a pout, deciding the walk is not too far. Guess what....It IS!

Did I mention how hot Bangkok is? UGH!

The computer that comes with the condo has some security features on it such that I can't access aol or any of the sites where I have to log in. This is troublesome as the time Vic is in class I am to do the blogging...So we head over to the computer market, Pantip Plaza. We walk for hours here. There are no deals. It seems silly to buy an Asian computer now just for this trip. We find the internet cafe and catch up on Emails.