Our last day in Bangkok was spent finally getting Alex to a Cat cafe. After our disappointment in Shanghai, we called ahead to ask about age restrictions and were given the ok. Alex has been missing our old cat Jack (who is living very happily with his new family of my sister-in-law and nieces and a new dog friend) and so we thought this might help.
Now, I am allergic to cats, have been for years, even to the cats we’ve had in the past. And since we have been catless, my allergies have gotten much better in general. So I sat at the bar of the cat cafe and tried not to touch anything.
Derpy cat, is actually like a corgi cat, he has little stumpy legs. He tried to jump up onto the bar and fell down because his legs were too short for the jump. So I felt bad and picked him up and put him on the bar.
Cats everywhere, and Mark and Alex couldn’t get enough.
Derpy cat also has a squished in face like a pug, and a cold.
Alex ordered scones not really knowing what they are and was a little dubious when they arrived. After trying one with butter, he was hooked.
For the most part, the cat cafe clientele was exactly who you would expect. Bohemian American girls with tiny dresses on, cute Chinese girls taking tons of pictures, and then us. We stayed for 2 hours, and then finally I had to make the boys leave so we could go get lunch.
Lunch was a Mexican place called Charley Brown’s Cantina. It was really good, we had a quesadilla, fajitas, tacos and a burrito. There were real chips and salsa, queso dip and good tunes.
That night we went to the famous Chatachuk Weekend market, but because there was a holiday/ official ceremony going on in the city- not all the stalls were open and it wasn’t as busy as usual.
As we were walking and talking through the market, Alex was asking about my tattoo and saying he would never get one because it hurts and who signs up to get hurt? And then Mark found the place pictured below and suggested Alex could get a tattoo that way and it wouldn’t hurt. Alex took a long time deciding, but finally settled on a wolf tattoo.
After tattooing, it was time to get something to eat! Alex is a fan of roti, which is a kind of egg crepe dish, it can be made sweet or savory, but he prefers it savory. The super nice (and very tiny ) lady pictured below with Alex didn’t speak english, and we don’t speak thai, so there was a slight miscommunication which lead to an egg and chocolate roti combination. Alex wanted nothing to do with that, so Mark and I split it. It was actually pretty good.
And so this was the end of our trip to Bangkok and Thailand, we had such a good time and can’t wait to go back. We’re actually planning a trip there for this summer but to a different area.
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