Week 1
After about 7 weeks or so (it may have been 8 weeks) spent in Samut Prakan (Bangkok adjacent), I was headed into the city. I would spend the next 2 weeks in Bangkok proper. It would be my last 2 weeks (for now) in Thailand before heading back to the states. Why was I headed back? …because my visa was expiring. Bonus points included getting vaccinated and seeing my friends and family while I was stateside.
Welcome to Week 1 activities:
1. Move to a hotel (Siri Sathorn – Queen Superior room (size: 35 m2)
room with a view 
catching sunset is always fun 
rays of sun, no rain 
views from the couch 
bed for 1
2. Tutor a ton of students (just a busy week on Preply)
3. Hang out with Penpak (lunches & dinners and other such things)
first dinner (ice cream from Guss Damn Good) 
Thai iced tea & cocoa 
chocolate mousse cake for “2” 
pretty typical lunch for us somtum (always), grilled calamari, larb nam tok 
cake bosses 
4. Mahanakhon Skywalk (because Wed was a national holiday) – playing tourist today!
sunset views 
drinks above the city 
5. Hang out with Praew & New (dinner in/around Chinatown) – 2 firsts in one night and both delicious
bua loy 
yentafo
6. “Fancy” Hotel dinner with Praew & New (moo joom & drinks) – delicious and fun
7. Hang out with Celeste (Thanks CS!) – we had so much fun just talking and first fluffy pancakes for both!
TP TEA (from the man who served the first pearl milk tea in Taiwan) 
passion fruit green tea, mulberry cheese tea, signature black tea 
LeTAO – fluffy (souffle – ricotta) pancakes
What a first week in town! It was so much fun, some work and meeting up with old and new friends. Week 2 is shaping up to be pretty busy as well. I can’t wait.
Eat. Drink. Explore 