Thailand continued

December 29th...
I haven’t had a chance to write in a while because lack of internet access. I was able to get the internet at our hotel today for 30 minutes at 200 Baht—what a rip off. Sad face.

Today Peg, Russ, Kristina and I started the day off with a boat ride down the river canals. It was quite a site. We even bought bread from a local that sold bread on the river and fed fish. . After we visited 3 temples, the Grand Palace, the Reclining Buddha, and another temple I forget the name of. There are over 40,000 temples in Thailand, and over 600 in Bangkok alone. The Reclining Buddha was extremely massive, 40m long & 15m high. People could make donations. The Grand Palace was a magnificent site! All the temples were extremely detail oriented. Lots of gold, tile, jewels, glass, etc. The architecture had many different influences such as Italian. The last one you could walk up steep stairs to the very top. We went to an awesome Thai market, tried some interesting food and shopped a little. Thailand has been so hot every day! In the evening we headed to dinner in front of a famous Thai puppet house. Russ got us a back stage pass before the show. The puppet masters were really good and funny. I did not like being kissed. . The show was amazing, though I didn’t understand the story line.
















At the end of the show the puppeteers came out into the audience and did funny things to people and I was so scared of them from them picking on me before the show, and they targeted me again! They picked up my purse with the puppet and ran on stage holding it hostage making me come get it. The three men that controlled the puppet wouldn’t give it back till I gave the puppet a kiss! They messed around with me at my expense, the audience was laughing, it was a really funny terrifying experience. They frighten me like clowns. I’m going to go to bed now and hopefully not have nightmares of creepy puppets.