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]

we ended up staying in trat for the night as we were all to tired and lazy to do anything else. we went to a night food market for dinner and ate heaps of deliciou vegeatbes and spicy meat things with rice for $.50… good deal. in the morning we went for breakfast at one of wan chuk’s friends’ restaurant and then got on a super luxorious VIP bus with foot rests, televisios, and butlered drinks and snacks. when we got into bangkok, nat’s (a.k.a. wan chuk) girlfriend named Tuk met us at the bus station and we all went to Jao’s house by taxi. Jao lives with his friend Bee who is this kind of crazy spoiled little rich boy from singapore but who is half dutch half thai or somehting. they live in a three story townhouse and jess, nat, tuk and i got the top floor. after arriving we ate some food and then went to jao’s favorite bar called the witch’s tavern which is an american-esque type of dive with the heinously overpriced drinks (5$) which were rectafied by the super cute thai band which was almost negated by a mostly terrible line-up of american un-favorites they were crooning, which was salvaged only by the silliness of the friends we were with. all in all a good time.
the next day we woke up ready to shop. the thai’s went bowling (i think this was the most excerise they ever got- every one was sore and tired later that day) and we went to the patunam market. [read on]

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