Lost in the city of Bangkok

I am sad to say that for how long I have lived in Bangkok I have not explored as much as I should have so I have now vowed to take every opportunity I get to explore various areas of the city!

View from our new room on the 29th floor! (only floor above us is the penthouse for the owner)

 I no longer have class on Thursday or Friday... well Thursday was almost write off this week after our going away party for Sebastian, although I did find an amazing place for hangover food!  George and I had a perfect afternoon of bagels and Haagen Daas icecream! We also discovered a really nice area just past Central world with a very very high end shopping mall!

Amber, Sophie, me, Marvin

Antoine, Sebastian, Marie

Nico, George, Me

The next day I woke up early and started my day roaming around Lumpini Park.

This park reminds me somewhat of Central Park in NY, really only because it is a big park in the middle of a huge city.  This park has paths for running, food stalls, beautiful gazebos, and parks... where apparently I am too old to play in! NOT KIDDING!  I was kicked off the swing set for being too old! I was SO UPSET!

I did have a nice time wandering around the trails, walking past the lakes and looking at the sculptures.  The sculpture on the top (fat running woman) is called "Women in the next Decade"... havnt decided what I think of the name...

After using the self timer a Thai guy called to me "photo photo, I take photo" and proceeded to take a grand total of 9 pictures of me in various poses all in this area... dont worry I wont bore you with the pictures but I sure felt like I was the centre of attention for a solid 5min there!

So as I was roaming all alone in the park, I see out of the corner of my eye a large object crawling towards me from the stream... I glance over and my first thought is "alligator?!" but not it is just a MASSIVE lizard! (well it is probably something different but I only know the general term lizard so sorry for the nontechnical term here)

How would you feel if this thing was crawling right for you!?

After my adventures in Lumpini Park I roamed around Central World, the high end mall just past Central world and one other area that I have no idea what it is called! Found a cute French cafe for lunch and roamed around the fancy area of Bangkok! Sorry no pictures... I'm not really one to take pictures of stores... but i'm sure you can imagine!

Now for a break from my explorations in Bangkok here are some pictures of my old and new room!

Old bedroom... you can see the pool creeping out from under the balcony

Our living area... and Amber studying at our table (old room)

Kitchen of our old room

View from our old room!

And now my new room.... The room with the wonderful view on the 20th floor! We moved in with two girls from Singapore, business exchange students! 

Amber and my new bedroom

Our new huge living room... You can see the lights from the city out the window

Our new kitchen and part of the living area

Mum and Dad arrived on the Saturday so Saturday I spent doing homework... Sunday I explored the city with them but dont have the pictures so I will skip to Monday...

Monday I decided I wanted to roam around China Town.... my roam turned into me getting lost as I was trying to get away from some guy who was being a little too friendly... I think he wanted money to tour me around maybe?  But while I was lost I did find some beautiful Shrines and a market! and I did find China Town after enough wondering!

I started at Wat Traimit aka Temple of the Golden Bhudda

And there is the massive golden Bhudda!

One of the shrines I found.

Finally after lots of roaming I found the main streets of China town!

I was so happy/amazed to find roasted chestnuts! Brought back good memories from Christmas roaming the streets on Robson... I might not have a winter this year but I can still enjoy my roasted chestnuts! 

The HUGE market I roamed in for a long time before finally going home.

Outside of another shrine I found near the market.