7 Temples in Ayuttaya
My friend Jiraporn invited me to go with her and one of her friends to visit a childhood friend who is a public prosecutor in Ayuttaya-a couple hours north of Bangkok. The city is the site of the old capitol of Thailand and was burned down by the Burmese about 400 years ago so there are a lot of temple ruins. But plenty of intact newer ones too! Little did I know I would be trudging from one temple to another for most of the day in the heat. I am really well-blessed for the coming New Year! As we were walking up to one unique temple there stood about 6 huge brightly colored roosters. No Buddah. What’s with the roosters, I asked Jiraporn. This is a temple in honor of the First King Rama who loved cockfighting, she said. OMG. Ancient values. I came home exhausted.
Tonight, Christmas eve for me, I met met two Thai women for dinner and conversation…so they can practice English they say. 😉 So after a bit of confusion we finally found each other at one of the Thaksin Saphin skytrain exits. I followed them to where we were have dinner…McDonalds! One of them lives upcountry and works for herself as a business consultant and the other works in a bank…Luk is her name…the same name as my daughter-in-law!
Tomorrow morning I will catch a bus for Pattaya to spend Christmas Day with Bob. Wonder if he will cook dinner for me. 🙂
Tags: Ayuttaya, Christmas, Thailand
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