Budget: 1800B/$60; Spent: 1944B/$65
Needless to say, after a very late night last night, we slept in until noon. We eventually made our way down to our hotel's restaurant area shortly after. We both enjoyed some Tom Yum soups with rice for breakfast.
We talked a lot about yesterday and Patty suggested we extend our stay in Chiang Mai, despite having booked our bus ride to, and our hotel in, Bangkok. Normally, this would have caused a large amount of anxiety in me, because I have a phobia of changing plans, but I talked myself through it for a couple minutes and came to the same conclusion. Why not stay in Chiang Mai? We had made several good friends, we have "discovered" Muay Thai, and we can spend our time in any way we choose. It was a good decision I think.
The lady who runs our hotel during the day changed the day of our travel to Bangkok for us and called our hotel in Bangkok to talk to them about changing the date, since we had already booked online through Agoda for one night in a couple days' time. The bus was no problem to change, but the hotel was a little more tricky. We had to get in touch with Agoda, but another of the hotel staff, a French guy named Hugo, suggested we email Agoda because they often reply within an hour. In true form, Agoda did in fact respond to us within an hour and, although they told us to contact our hotel, we emailed them again stating our hotel had told us to get in contact with Agoda, and when Agoda emailed us a second time, they had changed our booking for the day we wanted. So everything was fixed with no additional fees! Lovely when that happens.
So, we will be staying in Chiang Mai for an additional seven days, and we plan to do another six Muay Thai lessons, starting tomorrow. The lady at our hotel said she would try to get us a deal for six days of training, rather than pay the single day price six times.
For dinner we grabbed some kebab wraps from a street vendor, and they were delicious. Hugo told us he gets them almost every day. We will definitely be getting more of them!
Yesterday, Gabby had recommended we check out the Sunday night bazaar, so we went there. Unfortunately, nearly as soon as we got there, which was a two minute walk from our amazingly located hotel, it began raining. We rushed into a nearby shop to escape the rain, which didn't let up for half an hour or so.
The shops all covered up when it began raining. It looked like they were prepared for rain. We headed back to our hotel to wait out the rain and then returned to the bazaar once the rain stopped for good. Patty bought a necklace, scarf, Thai pants and a pair of workout shorts for Muay Thai for $1! All were quite cheap, but nice.
We briefly bumped into Gabby and Martin who said we would probably see them tomorrow at Muay Thai. We also bumped into the the Singaporean couple, Jerry and Yvonne, who we did the cooking class with. They were so nice. They gave us their contact info and told us to get in touch with them if we make it to Singapore.
It was a slow, but nice, day.
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