Day 22: November 15th

This morning we woke up fairly early and went down for breakfast at the restaurant at our resort again. John seems to love the Pad Thai now because this is his third meal in a row of it. We went and found mopeds to rent for B200 and then drove north till we found a shopping spot. There were tons of little stores all over the place. We started it out with Dr. Fish which was horrible but that is only my opinion. You sit and put your feet in this tank that is full of these tiny little fish that eat the dry/dead skin off your foot. The minute you put your feet in they start latching on and it is the freakiest and most ticklish feeling ever. They all seemed to get over the freakiness of it except for me. Bruce attempted to say everything he could think of to make me keep my feet it but it didn’t work to well. Pretty sure he tried the bribing tactic, the “you’re being such a baby” tactic and the others tried to help but it wasn’t until the last 2 min that I was able to successfully hold them in for a solid 30 seconds and sadly that was only because Bruce had joined me in my tank and the fish liked his feet much better. I’m sure it’s cause his weren’t wiggling all over the place but I’d like to believe it was just because my feet were so clean that I only had four fish on mine. It was a fifteen-minute ordeal but man it felt like much longer. Finally the torture was over and we all got to go start wheeling and dealing. John and Rose are natural bargainers. John was one of their favorite customers if you know what I mean. He is a great shopped and quite quick and making deals. One of the big successes Brent had in Bangkok was finding a pair of Dr. Dre beats and buying them for B900, which is $30.00 US. It wasn’t until they looked it up on the Internet later that they realized exactly how good of a deal he had gotten. On the Internet they sell them for $180.00 US, which would be B5400. Well when we got to this market we found two stands that sold them. The first guy wouldn’t go down any farther than B1100 but the second lady sold them to us for B1000. We purchased three pairs from her. After we had finished up shopping we found a little restaurant and grabbed a late lunch. John enjoyed is fourth meal in a row of Pad Thai lol.  Bruce had seen a hair place close by so we headed there after we finished eating. He wanted to get another hair cut as well as a shave. He had quite the whiskers and I was more than happy for him to get the long desired shave ;). Sadly it wasn’t everything he had hoped for. She did a great job but they literally just used bar soap and powder so nothing special. Brent got another hair cut as well and John and Rose debated but decided to hold off for now. There was this lady in the shop that had an adorable little baby flying squirrel or something similar. She carried it around in her pocket. John got to hold and it had the softest hair ever! It was so cute. By the time we were done there it was dark. We headed back on the mopeds and quickly realized it is a bad situation to drive these roads in the dark. There are potholes everywhere! Thank the Lord no one got in an accident but we defiantly got some adrenaline rushes. We made it back to our place and had some supper. John had some Pad Thai and the rest of us shared two orders of vegetable spring rolls and a smoked fish dish. The fish was actually pretty good and thankfully the eyes weren’t staring up at us. The spring rolls were incredible!! We chit chatted and then hit the sack.