St. Patrick's Day

We decided our best bet for celebrating St. Patrick's Day was in Bangkok. We had a sweaty 2 hour bus ride from Kanchanaburi with no ac, we were crammed in like sardines & by the time we arrived our clothes were soaked in sweat. We checked into a guesthouse that we found out catered to Danish travelors, but they still gave us a room. We were pretty wiped so we spent the early evening in the guesthouse's "DVD room" watching the movie Open Water, a low budget film about two divers that surface in the middle of the ocean to find that their boat has left them. It is based on a true story, no one knows what really happens, but the movie's take is that they were eaten by sharks around dusk. We were glad we did our night dive before seeing this movie.

Our St. Patrick's celebration started off by taking a wild tuk tuk ride to O'Reilly's. Tuk tuks are like a three wheeled motorcycle with rickshaw seating on the back. Our driver enjoyed quickly accelerating to unreasonable speeds, followed by questionable swerving. Our hair was a little wind blown when we came to a skidding stop alongside our Irish Bar destination.

We couldn't help but laugh when we entered O'Reilly's to see that their St. Patricks Day special was a two-for-one deal on... Coronas (there were yellow Corona balloons everywhere). Levi met a Thai law student last year in Hong Kong at the Vis Competition, named Ken. He joined us along with two of his other Thai friends & a Japanese friend. Ken's Thai friends had met the Japanese friend while studying in Germany so it was easier for them to communicate in German, rather than in English, Japanese or Thai. The bar also had a great Irish band that in addition to playing U2 hits, also busted out American classics like Sweet Home Alabama. Ended up being a delightfully random night full of odd international twists.