noodle quest 2006

This is the area where we are staying:

this is pad thai:

this is me and my mama at the beach this past summer:

On new years eve we went to an area of town called RCA which stands for Royal City Avenue. on this strip are tons and tons of bars, clubs, and lounges all lined up in a row with giant oustide venues encircled in fence with pumping music of all different varieties outdoor bars and jillions of hip thais drinking, grooving and shooting off fire crackers in quarters a little too cramped to feel safe about. we got out of the cab and were kind of in shock. we lined up behind some kids to get into one party bnut then we realized we didn’t have any id’s. so we circled around for a while, and then spotted a location to jump the fence. jess hopped over and i had one leg in and one leg out when security came and pulled me off the fence. then they jumped in for jess and pulled her out- all of this done in a friendly enough way. so then i don’t know i think we walked around for a bit more until we convinced some security guard to let us in sans id’s. then we met some cool kids and danced with them for a while and they shared their drinks with us and made drinks for us- in thailand when you go out and party with friends you buy bottles of acohol- even just 2 people going out wouldn’t buy indivudal drinks. hmmm….. then we danced around and went to the bathroom which was truly an unforgettable scene. there was about 30 stalls in this super hip super-bathroom with 20 tight jean and stiletto wearing hip thai girls lined up anxiously behind each one. some were drunk and propped up by friends, others were on cell phones (most others) and evceryone was stylin. it was truly insanse. then we left the fenced in party and were on our way to leave when we saw a group of super cute boys dancing crazy on top of a small wall overlooking the party so we stopped and danced with them for a few hours and then took some super silly photos in a photo booth. then we stopped at a foodstall and ate piles of street food incuding papaya salad, roast pork with peanut sauce, stir fried vegi’s and rice. we rolled into villa marissandjess at around 4:30. [read on]