Impressions
Wow. It’s cool seeing weddings for different culture. In Thailand, you get blessed by monks and pay respect to guest and all that wonderful stuff. Very ceremonious. But it’s long. The Bride and groom spent the whole day in ceremonies and it lasted literally half the day.
After the wedding, it was off to PJ’s home town of Kamphaengphet but we stopped buy Ayutthaya on the way. The ruins were nice and so were the elephants walking around everywhere. However, seeing the elephants also made you sad because they did not seem happy, as they were forced to carry tourist all over the place.
Near Kamphaengphet, we stopped off at a local restaurant to grab some dinner. Nothing too special. Just your average Thai restaurant serving serving normal Thai dishes like using chicken, pork and water beetles. Yes, you read that right. As gross as that sounds, Pat, Ed and John had enough balls to try some fresh water beetles. Either that or they were too dumb to realize that that was not chocolate.
What We Did
Check out Asia Hotel
Van to PJ’s Wedding
Van to Ayutthaya and Ruins
Van to restaurant near Kamphaengphet
Van to Kamphaengphet and PJ’s family Autoshop
Van to and check into Marlin Hotel Resort
Edit: 2008.03.09- Added a link to the photo albums for this day.