We went to Patong beach last night and saw all the action. Curtis wanted to see all the "night life". Its even harder to walk through that area than Bangkok. "Do you want a suit? We have an expert tailor. Please come inside." "Picture with Iguana! Picture with Iguana!" (You wouldn't believe how many people have that gig!) "You light lucky lantern!" "Tuk-tuk? Tuk-tuk?" "Ping pong show! Come to ping pong show!" ...
We sat at a bar on the beach and had a drink and I was amused by how many different roving vendors were trying to sell us stuff. We could have bought a watch, a dress, swim shorts, scarf, henna tatoo, a wooden harley, a flute, an elephant carving, sunglasses... all without getting up.
When we were tired, we finally indulged one of the people trying to offer a taxi ride to get us back to our hotel. But he had no idea how to find our hotel. After four phone calls and pulling over for directions twice, luckily he had made it close enough that we could see the sign. There's only one main road and we tried to get him to just keep driving straight until we saw the hotel, but he was determined to look for it himself and kept making U-turns because they told him it was by the 7-11 and there are a billion 7-11's here, so he was circling around the wrong one. Finally made it back though. Whew!
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