today is day three in bangkok. yesterday was good but crazy. learning our way around bangkok is not easy and completely up to us. transportation is not exactly designed to help the tourist. we took the river boat for 26 baht for both of us (less than one dollar) but the first dock we walked up to a guy tried to tell us it would cost 1000 baht (around $30). many of the tuk-tuk drivers wanted to take us to places other than where we wanted to go and one of them did. to a tourist office to buy a package trip. we thought we could try and buy tickets for the weekend to go to a city north of bangkok and he said he had a package trip that would be better. we insisted that we only wanted train tickets to go there but the guy told us if we were not happy with what he was offering we were free to go. we just left. it was obviously not an official tourist office. so we have kind of learned who we can believe.
it was a good day though. we saw the golden budda, 5 tons of solid gold. and a few temples. ok, i'm running out of time i gotta go. it's around 12noon here and i am confused with the time difference from home.