BKK Day 1

Back in Bangkok. We had a great impromptu vacation here over New Years so we decided to come back and wrap up our SE Asia travels in the city. This city is HUGE and provides tons of great activities, sights, smells, foods, and drinks. Despite having spent quality time here just six months ago, we have already seen new sights, burned our taste buds at new restaurants, and felt like we are experiencing BKK for the first time all over again. However, we are a little smug when we see other travelers struggling to figure out this mega-city that we "know" so well.

First we went to the Bangkok Art and Cultural Center. It was a free art exhibit space where we were literally the only people there enjoying the wonderful pieces. (We don't count the group of 10+ Chinese male tourist who spent their entire time in the ice cream shop)

Adam likes art.

Heidi really "got into the art" at the center. Haha...

Our favorite exhibit was the one that you could spell out any word that did not have more than five letters. We thought of many possibilities (some not appropriate for the museum) but settled on just spelling our names.

We did not get tired of seeing our names in the lights and actually took pride in the fact that they stayed up the entire time that we were there. Oh wait, but we were the only ones there our entire time in the space.

Trapped in a modern art piece. Scary!

After the Art Center we visited the home of the Thai silk king, Jim Thompson. No he does not live there anymore, otherwise there is no way that we would have been able to step foot on the grounds of his ridiculously large and lavish home.  According to our guide book this is referred to as "a place where we all would live if we had money, class, and style."

Part of the tour involved reading your Thai horoscope. We thought that this was all fun and games until we learned that Jim Thompson disappeared in Malaysia, never to be seen again, the exact year his Thai horoscope called for grave danger. Crap, Adam's grave danger year is only two years away.

After sights and lunch we checked out an antique car show. In true Bangkok style it was of course being held in a a mall.