Shanghai Bob

On the morning of Halloween, we went to the huge Paragon Mall to get a camera for Andrew.  It was a super deal compared to China or the UK — the same camera I bought but about $250 cheaper, with the chance to get your face painted Halloween-style for free.

We are still at the tail end of the rainy season, which resembles Florida’s more than Tokyo’s:  20 minutes of rain every afternoon rather than days at a time.  The problem in Bangkok is drainage.  I once went three stops on the sky train and alighted to see that it had started to rain while I was underway.  Before I got back down to street level, the sudden shower had stopped, and I was congratulating myself on my perfect timing when a car drove through a standing puddle and soaked me.

We had a solid hour’s worth of rain during dinner at Ruen Mallika (in a fantastic, leaky, teak house), and when we took the taxi to Soi Cowboy for a beer afterward, the taxi was throwing a bow wave.  (The pictures are on Andrew’s new camera.)  When we got to Soi Cowboy, the entire street was flooded, and all the patrons who were already there when the rain started were essentially stranded.

We didn’t feel like wading (literally) through the water, so we went to Nana instead.

This entry was posted on Friday, October 31st, 2008 at 6:55 am and is filed under bangkok, thailand, travel.