July 4, 2005

It's the 4th of July! Crazy. It's Monday afternoon which sort of sucks but Dave and I had a great weekend. We went into Bangkok to Siam Square which really reminds me of NYC. It's really crowded, a little dirty and tons of boutiques! We went on a Lonely Planet hunt for this restaurant called the Pickle Factory! The description was that it had sausage pizzas but you had to walk down a dark soi (alley) to get there and to watch out for dogs. Being the tour manager for the restaurant search, I took Dave down every single soi off of the road on the map but there was no pickle factory to be found. We founds loads of street food vendors, an organic health food store, a Tops grocery store but no Pickle Factory. The last one we tried I was sure was right. It was dark and windy but nope..no Pickle Factory. We were getting really hungry so we headed to Siam Square and went straight for.......Hard Rock Cafe. hahaha. I don't think I've ever eaten at one of those. I'm ashamed to admit it but I LOVED the pulled pork sandwich. Oh my gosh...it felt like we were back home.

On Sunday we headed back into Bangkok and saw "War of the Worlds." It was that or "Batman Begins." After the movie we got our first Thai HAIR CUTS. That was scary man. Oh my gosh! I was soo worried I was going to have a mullet. There are a lot of those here. But they let us sit next to eachother the whole time and the head massage while they shampooed our hair was AWESOME. My cut is really cute and the guy that cut Dave's styled it too! haha. He looked like Brandon from 90210..extreme side part..funny. Anyway, it looks cute today.

We're underway on our next project here. It wasn't even a whole week off from ITG and now it's SAYOWE. It's the South East Asian Youth Orchestra and Wind Ensemble. It's like an All-State program but for all of South East Asia. Our school hosts this event every year and last year it was at Phuket...dang. This year it's at school...boring. Nah, it'll be fun but Dave and I are in charge of hiring conductors and soloists. haha..Can you see Dave and I negotiating??

Shopping here is pretty amazing...I finally went this weekend and I got a concert blouse for $10 and a work knit top for under $10! I love that! This week is pretty busy but I'm really looking forward to heading home in a couple weeks. My sisters' wedding is coming up FAST. That's all I got. See ya!