Blisters appeared on my legs our last day in Bangkok. It hurts to walk. Chris is slightly under the weather and we’re both kinda tired. It’s also Chris’ birthday. Yay!
We laid low again. It wasn’t worth pushing ourselves when we didn’t have anything in particular scheduled or on our must-do list.
We visited the cat café next to the hotel so Chris could get some coffee and I could get some much-needed kitty cuddles. This place is great. Most of the cats are available for adoption through a local agency that ensures they’re all healthy, vaccinated, and desexed.
They also have a number of permanent residents (e.g. Genghis) who have made their way to the café for one reason or another. Several were forced to be abandoned when their owners left Bangkok. In one instance, the owner was relocating back to their home country of Australia and the quarantine process lasts 7 months. They didn’t want to put the cats through that. Such a tough decision.
After the cat café, we went to a nearby museum. There wasn’t much there. They are anticipating renovations soon and so have removed all of the artifacts. I don’t know much about this but it’s an example of a northern Thai house that was originally built in Chiang Mai. It was disassembled, relocated, and reassembled in Bangkok in the 1960’s. It took 2 (TWO!) years to reassemble it.
After the museum, we headed to a grocery store that had a very unusual (to us) event called “Tasy USA Day. Apparently, American food carnivals are a thing?
Anyway, we wandered around the shopping options before heading back to the hotel which had decorated our room to wish Chris a happy birthday. Fresh flowers, turtle towels, and a lovely card. That afternoon, they also delivered birthday cake! They seriously treated him better than I did lol
We hung out in the room for the rest of the day (couldn’t go to the pool because it didn’t have shade) minus a late lunch at an amazing Indian restaurant. Then it was onward to Seoul for a 10-hour layover!
