Day 3

This morning we both get woken up by Claire coming into our rooms, 'Its 11.30! wake up lets get going! Come on!' So we rushed to get up, and my room being my room was a mess, things all over the show. I hurredly packed it all together thinking we were really late, and that we had missed breakfast downstairs. We went to Mc Donalds. Claires first food in Thailand and it was Maccas. Hilarious. We went up to the train and off to MBK. Me and Claire, funnily enough, couldn't be bothered going in, and Mash only wanted to buy a new camera to replace the one that was in his bag he lost. After waiting in an alley out of the sun for about an hour, I looked at my cell phone. 10.28am? Hows that possible when we left the hotel after 11.30, aaaages ago? Turns out Claires clock was wrong, and we worked out we would have left the hotel at about 7-8am. Jesus. Ah well, got us out and about early.

I got to ring Sam in the meantime, which was totally awesome, even if I did use $20 credit in 7 minutes. Mash gets back with a fancy new camera, and off we went to the big train station, where we booked our train to Chiang Mai via Ayutthaya. After we bought the tickets a random lady came over and asked of we wanted to book accomodation for when we got there, and theres a travel agent up here and follow me. Ok then. The people here are so handy helpful. Straight off the bat people coming up to you finding out if you know where your gate is or where you need to go. Awesome. Anyway, we got up there and another super handy helper lady gave us deals and free nights and very good very good time, and thats 2450 Baht later and we had 2 nights in a mean hotel, a 2 day jungle trek with elephant riding, rafting and a visit to the longnecks. Yay. Now for a 2 hour boiling train ride to the once capitol city. I bought a chicken meal thing on the train that I'd definitely get food poisoning from' but im glad to say nothing yet as it was delish. Very such a sweaty train trip, but somehow I managed to drift off while sitting there. I see how every second shop has someone dozing out the front now.

We get to Ayutthaya andgrab our giant bags and off we go. We get directions to a possible doctor, as Mash has a mosquito bite on his foot and its starting to swell up. Welcome to my world. After asking a few locals if they thought his foot was 'good? good? bad? bad?' he decided to leave it for a day. Onto the ferry for 4 Baht to get across the river - the middle of the city is surrounded by a river thing, that has big clumps of lilly pads floating down it - to the middle of the city. We stopped at the first food stall we could find, and what a good choice this turned out to be. Claires ordering some food, something without meat cos all meat will kill you here, and spring rolls come out. YUM! Pity they had chicken in them cos then Alana swooped in to finish them off. heh heh heh. At this point we've each drunk at least 4 bottles of water, and they're covering the table like beers usually do. Were asking the guy who runs the place about the Wats to visit, and he informs us that half of them close at 5, and it being 4.20 we should probably get going. We can leave our big packs out the back of the shop if we want, its about a km away. So we leave our packs and start walking. Walking. WALKING. In 30 plus degrees and 150% humidity, what a silly idea this was. We get there, rush on in, ruddy red faces streamming with sweat, we're wondering why all the other tourists look so together, and like this heat is nothing. This isnt fair. We walk around, do some exploring, and I take this photo (see above) of us looking very impressed with our situation. It was really awesome tho, all these old as hell ruins everywhere, its insane theyre still around.

After sitting down and watching Mash buy new dad-sandals, and seeing 3 people try to help when he drops his old ones, we get in a tuk-tuk and go back to the food shop where we left our bags. But they're gone? Wheres the guy? JOKES sorry no that was a lie, he was very nice, and our bags are where we left them. We went for another wee walk down the streets, where Claires feet started blistering, so she put on Mashs old Jandals and back to the food shop for dinner. We were sitting in there, and this random american guy walks in off the street and says' 'hi, have you guys ordered, wanna start with some pepsi or snacks or anything?' I thought he was a random mental cos wtf, you just walked in off the street bro. Turns out he did know them and possibly did work for them. Who knows. He ended up taking our order and it was a little dissapointing, mine was too spicy, I wasnt really hungry, aaaaaand yeah. Ah well.

We had about 2 hours till the train so we slowly got ready and went there early. At the train station there were wild dogs everywhere, just sitting round, lying on the tracks, randomly about. They leave you alone tho which is awesome. Also heaps of little lizard skink things. We get water and toilet paper and Pringles for the train trip. It's the small things right. This american guy came up to talk to us about what we were upto, train etc wise, and turns out he's doing pretty much the exact same thing, must be a popular route. The train gets here 10 mins late, and like Claire says, low expectations brings no dissapointment, and we think the train is awesome. After the long sweat filled day, the bed is the comfiest thing I've ever lay on, we have little gold curtains to block each other out, theres a resturant car, plugs to charge our cameras and this laptop. Theres a man with a breakfast menu that would get delivered to us if we order, but we dont. Great stuff I say. After getting into our beds, which come with a sealed blanket thats actually made of towelling. We're off to sleep, and it's the best sleep ever.