saturday in the city

I'm not keeping score, but I think that today the three of us experienced a fairly typical Ex-Pat Saturday in Central Bangkok™. We headed out this morning to the Pratunam market, in a vain attempt to find Madeline a Halloween costume. Who knew that she'd need a Halloween costume in Bangkok? Certainly not I, or else I would have ordered something from the US last month or brought a pattern from home for something. Anyway, we didn't manage to locate any purveyors of Halloween costumes at Pratunam, though I if even wanted a little skimpy and sequined number for Madeline's debut in the child pageant circuit, I know where to go. Blech.

From there, we headed to a tailoring shop where Chris got measured up for a pair of made-to-measure shirts to wear at the office. This was interesting for two reasons: firstly, the shop was quite happy to advertise that the American president is a happy customer, even displaying a photo of GW wearing a shirt from their shop at a press conference. Secondly, we were given a parting gift of several pads of notepaper and a dozen drinking glasses, all bearing the shop's logo. Bizarre, no?

By the time we finished our lunch out at the Roadhouse and browsed around Jim Thompson, we were all exhausted.  I find central Bangkok to be kind of mentally exhausting - so many people, so many vehicles, and so little room to move about. Our usual Saturdays, out in the suburbs, are more laid-back. We walk to the grocery store. Maybe we'll wander to the Mexican restaurant. We'll pass an hour in the pool. The traffic is sparse and is restricted to 30 km/hr. Sometimes it's kind of boring, but I think that Chris and I appreciate that boring isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Comments

[jesser]

This is all so interesting. I've heard that tailor-made clothes were very inexpensive in Eastern countries, but the parting gifts are a trip, not to mention their affiliation w/ good ol' GW. Haha.