Thursday 10th April 2008

When we got out of the pool yesterday afternoon we noticed that my shorts were covered in a blue dye from the tiles. We took them to reception to complain and they offered to wash them for me - for free. While we were there we thought we'd mention (again) that we were disappointed not to be on Mark and Lisa's floor, not have a pool view, and why wasn't breakfast included in our rate? Well, when we got back last night we found a note under our door which said that, this morning, we were allowed to go to the hotel restaurant for a buffet breakfast... woohoo - free food! We told Mark and Lisa and they got up early to join us.

After preparing them for the last few days, we felt they were ready to do Bangkok on their own and sent them off to look at some temples. We would've gone, but we'd already seen them - and just chilled out in the hotel instead. We arranged to meet at the MBK Shopping Centre this afternoon and, sure enough, they turned up safely. They seemed to have had a good morning and had seen some cool sights and went looking for a suit for Mark. We spent a couple of hours wandering around the shops - me with Mark and Nikki went off with Lisa. The girls didn't buy anything, but me and Mark managed to get a James Bond watch for his Dad - and at a really good price too. When we had had enough of the shopping we returned to the hotel and relaxed by the pool.

This evening we got ourselves dressed-up and went out for our last night together. We started by visiting this REALLY posh hotel called The Banyan Tree Hotel, where we went up to their bar called Vertigo, which is on the roof (or 61st floor). The views of Bangkok were stunning and we felt well snobby. I didn't feel AS snobby as the others though, because I was wearing three-quarter length trousers and had to borrow some 'longer ones' from the hotel. They were rubbish and came to just a bit lower than my original ones - making me look like a clown! We enjoyed our beers and cocktails and then caught a taxi across town to the Hard Rock Café. We all thought we were starving, because we'd not eaten all day and ordered loads of food - way too much in fact. We ordered giant starters, which we could just about manage - but when the main courses came out, we were already stuffed and wasted most of our meals... d'oh! We had planned on going to one of the big clubs in town but were all feeling bloated, so instead came back to our hotel and drank in the bar, where there were a cute little house-band performing.

Mark and Lisa are bad influences... we're spending a fortune!