Day 2 in Banghot!!

Hi it's Sam here,

Now it's my turn at the keyboard whilst Chris has a manicure-pedicure! Only joking he's off to buy me some secret presents for my birthday tomorrow, though I think I can probably guess what they might be because all the shope sell pretty similar things here (sarongs, thai fishing pants, jewelry and flip-flops!).

We went to the Grand Palace today, it was stunning. Everything is made of gold little tiles and coloured stones, it's very colourful and very lavish. We saw an emerald Buddah which was amazing, and there where lots of elephant statues at the fronts of the buildings (protecting them). The down side about the place was that I had to rent "appropriate" clothing to get in which made me look ridiculous and I was very hot with my little yellow dress from Marbella underneath a shirt and long skirt (melting!!). I also discovered why in films you see Thai girls walking with very little steps...those skirts made me do the same walk, it was hilarious! There's no way you could kick anybody wearing them!

Talking of kicking, we went to a Thai boxing match last night, it was great!! I loved it, apart from when the really small ones fight (100 pounds only! I weigh more than that!), then it was like watching a playground fight.
But it was atmospheric and there was lots of shouting and betting, and one guy got knocked out pretty much straight away (but I missed it, I was in the loo).

I had my first curry today, I asked to have it mild, I am petrified of getting a bad stomach which is why all I've done is eat cheese and ham toasties up til now. Even where we got the toasties we saw a rat run past our table (yuck!!! Dad- you would starve here!).

Today we also fell for the "really cheap tuk-tuk via the thai fashion factory" trick, I mean, can you believe it!!!? We've known all about it and we actually saw it coming but we ended up there somehow anyway, though it was very funny because they wheren't getting anything out of Chris at all. "Do you ever wear trousers sir?" NO "Do you ever wear a shirt?" NO

Ok that's it for now. Lots of love,

Sam x