Everyone in my building met downstairs in the lobby around 8 am, but of course according to Thai time that meant our buses actually left at 9:30 am. We were first taken to a market where all the ingredients that we would use to make food later were purchased. It was interesting to see fresh coconut milk being made and the enormous amount of ingredients in take to make one simple Thai dish from scratch. Everyone grabbed some breakfast at the market and then we headed over to Pi Maa’s house to actually make lunch. Once we got there we all picked up little stuff to do cut up fruits, peal mushrooms, chop vegetables, make sticky rice, etc… then we all had the opportunity to make our own batches of Pad Thai. Pi Maa has a curry paste factory in her backyard and she provides the royal family all of their paste for their food (so it’s good) and we used it to make Tom Yum a really spicy soup with an array of different vegetables in it. For dessert we had mango sticky rice which is just a mango on type of sticky rice but very good. After we were all stuffed with food we sat around for a while and then got on mini buses to go to Sanam Chandra Palace.
Sanam Chandra Palace was built in the early 1900’s before the Brahman shrine; it was built by the prince who later became King Rama VI as both a vacation retreat and what would be his residence during his pilgrimage. It is a beautiful place, we fed fishes in the water and walked around its not very big and we were done with it in about an hour. We then got back on the buses to head back to Bangkok; unfortunately the bus I was on took a longer to get back than the other. Our tire blew out, and not that it is relevant but our FEMALE freaked out and called a pit crew to come rescue us off the road but before they got there me and Bruno a guy from France figured out how to use the funky not very safe jack and changed the tire ourselves. We finally made it back home and called it a day.
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