Standing, sitting, sleeping

Buddhas that is. Bangkok has three very famous buddhas each in one of these positions. And we saw them all, and then some. The people of Bangkok are very proud of their temples, called "wats", and a big thing for tourists to do is hire a tuk-tuk driver to be your tour guide for the day - all for approx 60 baht or $1.75. In addition to the wats we spent some time at an authentic Thai festival where we saw a Thai football match, a combat kite
competition, and most interesting of all, a few Thai boxing matches. We happened to see a couple fights in the female teen division. These teenage girls you do not want to upset.

In Bangkok we also had our first run-in with a scam of sorts. We were walking down the street and three women approached us with bags of corn. They dropped the corn liberally all
around us and then encouraged us (and would not accept no for an answer) to take a couple bags and feed the hundreds of pidgeons that had circled us at this point. Then the women turned on us and started demanding money for the corn. When we said no they just got more aggressive and more pressuring. I shouted something stupid like "I will not!" and Allison said let's get out of here, so we did and only 20 baht lighter.