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How did I get that lovely card? Well I can tell you that for sure.

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In Bangkok, sometimes they have a fuel credit for their took-tooks if they take you to souvenir shops. On these days, the drivers will give you a good discount if you go into a store and look interested in their products for 10 minutes they receive the credit and you receive a cheap took-took ride.

We didn’t really know about this the first time we were driven to a store and we’re sure why the Grand Palace looked less like a Palace and more like an overpriced jewelry store. We walked in … and out and the driver was a little mad. He said “10 minutes” and then drove us to a suit store.

When we got there, we were met by a man with impeccable English and I moved too quick to asking about the price of a tuxedo, which was about 3000 baht or $100 more than anywhere else I asked and Tami and Colette had to find something to do. They sat down, opened a fashion book and tried to pretend to pick things out, while the owner asked them many questions and I wandered the store with my best “interested” face. After 10 minutes of page-turning/store-walking, the man told us to leave. I said “why” and he said that if we didn’t pay 500 baht for the air condition we were receiving, we’d have to depart. We departed. The driver got his credit, we got our discount; everybody won, except the ripoff store.

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After our unplanned, but delightful nap, where unexplicably, I slept with my legs off the bed, Colette and I woke, in search of beer and food. We found both. It was hot. We had Mexican food, both burrito type meals with an assortment of unnecessary vegetables. I enjoyed it; however, I think Colette was less of a fan. We watched some of Knocked Up with the worst subtitles ever, I wish I could remember a good example and then we returned to our treehouse to shower and get ready.

After hearing that some people would be wearing ridiculous gear like face paint, headbands (I tried to advise some girls to get both armbands and headbands) and the like, I decided I’d spiffy up my look, so I donned a skinny tie. We took a picture, our only picture until we find Emma’s pictures. We went and got some more food, with Tami including me drinking some cold ovaltine (more on my ovaltine obsession later) this time, and watched some movie that was depressing and Mel Gibson directed, and gloomily moved out towards the beach party grounds.

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On a monthly basis, the Thai island of Koh Paghnan hosts a party to celebrate the Full Moon and as I assume, celebrate the farang’s (foreigner’s) willingness to go to a party for anything. My friend Johanna from SAS told me to come down to this party from Bangkok.

We took an overnight bus, sitting first class, which means, not much, I’d have to say. I got a seat and was able to watch a strange Thai movie with lots of sound effects and a few motorcycles. We got to the ferry stop around 9am and got aboard the ship where I met my first Thai girlfriend, a girl about age 5 who was half European, half Thai and mostly not being watched by her parents as she handed my her baby doll many times and got shy as I asked her questions.

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I am reporting today from the Land of the Thai. I am towards the end of my vacation in Sunny Thailand and somethings have been awesome and some not as awesome. Mostly awesome though. I’ve seen elephants, a city that resembles Blue Sky Cafe, the moon at its fullest, temples on mountains and much much more.

I just wanted to say hello as I’ve got to go back out in the 90 degree weather. Jealous?

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