When we arrived at the hotel we were greeted by several bellhops trying to get our luggage. We stayed at the tallest building in Bangkok, the Baiyoke Sky Hotel. The hotel was beautiful and I highly recommend it to anyone traveling to Bangkok. After a short check in we went to the elevator and I am not sure what you call them but an employee selected our floor and held the door for us to go to our room. We made it to the room and had enough time to look around when our bellhop arrived with our luggage. The room was really nice and was huge with a huge bathroom (and a western toilet :). We never stopped talking until we ordered room service for our supper. It was really late when I arrived as I remember it was around 2:00am when we got to the room. I didn’t know what to order so I ordered several thing to try. I ordered the famous Tom Yum Kum soup to try. It was too sour for me LOL but Narissa enjoyed it. I just nibbled on the other stuff and I think I liked the spring rolls. I love Chinese food, Japanese but had never tried Thai food before but I was looking forward to it because I love hot and spicy food. Even though I have been up for over 30 hours at this point we couldn’t stop talking to each other. We finally fell asleep laying on the bed. Narissa woke up really early the next day and to keep from waking me she got on the laptop and called some of her friends. After a while she woke me up LOL. I was out from all of the no sleep before. We got ready and went out in the hotel to explore. We found a place to eat and tried it. The hotel had several restaurants in it and all were very nice. We walked around in the hotel looking at the stores and shops and went to the top to see the overlook. It was amazing to see the buildings around Bangkok from the round room surrounded by glass. We took a lot of pictures around the hotel. The hotel has a lot of fixed scenes for pictures or kind of living backgrounds if you will. We spent the rest of our day talking and walking around like two teenagers on love. The next day was more of the same but we ventured out and went to a Filipino restaurant to eat. Again I didn’t know that to order so I ordered two different things and Narissa ordered something entirely different also. I ordered Chicken Adobo and kalderetang baka and I can’t remember what she ordered LOL. I am just learning Tagalog now. Both dishes I ordered were 100% incredible and very tasty. I tried Narissa’s soup and I didn’t care for it too much but the prawns in it were HUGE and they were really good. We shared our food and both of us were about to pop before we left the place. We went shopping in the street markets and purchased a few things. The next day we traveled to the Tiger Temple. That is a temple ran by monks and they of course have tigers. I paid to have my pictures made with the tigers. Narissa had her picture made with one tiger and that was enough for her LOL. She was a little scared of the huge tigers. We walked around the complex and made a lot more pictures during our stay there. We traveled back to the hotel and did our usual routine again. We traveled to Songkla via bus that took 12 hours. Songkla is on the southern tip of Thailand. We want to her place and I got to meet her house mates. We talked for hours at a time with rounds of questions about Thailand and the Philippines and the States. We slept and Narissa got up early again LOL, she always gets up super early compared to me. She went to the market and got food and come back home and prepared it. She is an excellent cook. I had many of meals that the prepared that I really loved and I don’t think I found any of the Filipino food that I didn’t like while I was there. We ate at several restaurants in Songkla and the food was good at all of them. We ate at MR. Steak and it was OK. We ate at the Crown Bakery and the food was really good. I finally got some really hot and spicy Thai food to try and I loved it. We went to several places while in Songkla including Hatyai, Hatyai park and Monkey Hill. We went to a restaurant called the Sky Buffet with several of Narissa’s friends to eat and so that I could meet them. We all had a blast and they were really nice. Then we went inside the mall to look around and shop and take pictures and that was a lot of fun.
We made the trip back to Bangkok via the bus again. There were a lot of places that Narissa wanted to share with me but I was just too worn out to visit them. We did a good bit of shopping when we arrived back in Thailand. We stayed at the same hotel because it was so nice the first time. I got souvenirs for everyone for the trip back home. The day before I left for home was Narissa’s birthday so we celebrated as best we could in Bangkok. We had fun. I had brought Narissa several types of perfume, a nice hand bag from the Maria Carey collection and of course her engagement ring from the Tom Shane Company. She loved all the gifts that I had brought her. We looked everywhere for a shirt to fit me and finally found one, only one :( Narissa had purchased a couple of really nice shirts for me and a belt. I loved them all and they fit perfectly :)
The next day was the worst. We had to get up and get ready really really early and pack everything for my flights home. It was like a death had happened with a lot of tears and silence and frequent hugs. We took a cab to the airport and a short goodbye with tears and I was off for home again. To be continued tomorrow…
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