Water Taxis and Skytrains...

Star Wars was great. Nice theatre too; reclining seats and tonnes of leg room. Theatre was not very full, maybe 20 people. This morning we were gonna leave at 11 for downtown Bangkok, but then it started raining. Rained like I've never seen it rain before in my life. Awesome. And the lightning seemed very close by and the thunder was deafening. I could hear it raining on my roof last night as well. So we ended up leaving at 1 instead. We walked down to the pier and then took a water taxi to downtown Bangkok. Took like an hour to get there. Once we got out of the boat we took the sky train to a mall called Siam Centre. Grabbed lunch at "Au Bonne Pain", checked out a bookstore, had a coffee at Starbucks. Took sky train to end of the track then got off and walked around in this sweet park with Lindsay and Colleen. It had a nice pond with about 5 bridges crossing it and paddle boats. Had like 18 workout stations with signs telling you how many things to do such as stone balance beams and steps to do step ups and rings to hang on and stuff. Really interesting and beautiful park. Grabbed bus 63 which takes us right back here. About an hour. Air conditioned. The money collector was a man who had recently finished highschool who knew a bit of English. He seemed very interested in our school. He said his dream was to go to university and become a teacher but since he had a bad knee he couldn't earn enough money to go. Kinda sad, but very nice guy. Got back, then went for supper down the street with Colleen and Lindsay and a Thai guy whose name I can't spell who works here as a teaching assistant. Had cashew chicken and rice. Very good. Got back here and did a load of laundry and then hung it all up to dry on the balcony.