Asia day 8- Bangkok

Waking up was definitely not easy. 930 am rolled outta bed for our breakfast buffet. However, I was not hungry. Just needed water. But I ordered an omelet and ate a ham and cheese sandwich. Then I went back to sleep until noon. Mom checked out the pool off of the fourth floor. I showered, popped some advil and we decided we were just going to shop and do a dinner cruise along the river tonight. Found a silk shop right around the corner. Found a nice silk dress for 85$ but did not buy it. Then we headed down the street again looking at all the random junk. Then we got to the river again. Decided we should water taxi it back to the shops and see if we could find anything worthwhile. The shopping in china town is like a giant flea market. The hallways are at sometimes so narrow its total stopped traffic. We just walked and walked and walked. Bought some fabric for 3$ and some headbands 30 cents. We just kept walking and sure enough we found a pier for the water taxi. We hopped onto the water ferry and got off at central. It was 4pm. We were being picked up from our hotel at 620 for our dinner cruise. We decided to walk the other side of the street. Ended up getting to a big street and were attempting to cross when this dude came up to us and said u guys trying to cross? Come with me I'm local. So we followed him across the busy street. Then, I'm not sure but I'm pretty sure he was a scam artist he asked what we wwere looking for (meh, just kinda looking no intention of buying anything). So then he asked for our map! Wrote all over it where we need to go (some tailor and world exports jewelry store) and how we needed to take a tuk tuk (3 wheel cart taxi) and not pay more than 20 baht round trip to our hotel. Then outta no where a tuk tuk appeared. Smooth talker told the driver where to bring us and how he needed to drop us off at our hotel. 20 baht for round trip through the streets and drop off at our hotel. He even tipped the driver--who brought us to a tailor, said no; then to a jewlery store where we were hasseled quite hard for 100$ pearl ring in silver with cubic zerconia (rip off) then we asked to be brought back to our hotel as it was nearing time for our boat cruise. Made it to the hotel, where I found out I had an offer and sellers disclosure to sign. Good thing I have the app "sign me" on my ipod. I could create a signature and place it wherever needed on the doc. Sent it back to ricardo to see if the seller would accept the offer. Then, our driver came to pick us up for our dinner cruise. Due to traffic we hopped a taxi to the river landing. Got on the dinner cruise where we were greeted, served drinks (water only for me) and brought some peanuts. The cruise along the river was quite nice. We went past the temples and emperors palace. For dinner we had a spicy soup and spring rolls. Then we ordered one seafood one thai food meal. The seafood had HUGE shrimp (complete with shells and head) pawns, mussels, and fish steak. Mother ate this. The thai food came out with a pork soup, rice, and fried meat. It was okay. Ended up being too much food. The cruise was nice though.

After the cruise we were shuttled back to our hotel where after booking our hotel for chiang mai at anoma boutique guest house per willies suggestion, we went to sleep with our alarms set for 355am in time to leave by 430 for our 640 flight. Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile