Erin and Leah kindly invited us to spend the night with them in the Marriott so we could all be together on Christmas! So Christmas morning Stephanie, Leah, and I woke up to the sound of the hotel door being opened. It was 7am, and we didn't know what to think of that. All alarm was set aside, however, when we recognized Erin's voice coming from the door
way. There was another voice, though....one that was laced with an Australian accent. "Ahhhh...", I thought - "this must be Amanda". I knew that Amanda, a friend of Erin and Leah's from Ubon, would be joining us today. I just didn't realize how early...haha. They quickly realized they had awoken us, apologized, and tiptoed out of the room headed toward the lobby for internet access. A few minutes passed and I flipped the covers off and said, "Well, I'm headed to the lobby to call my Momma." haha - I couldn't sleep anymore and apparently neither could Stephanie or Leah. They followed my lead. We all got gussied up in our Christmas best :o) and headed downstairs to join Amanda and Erin who were already talking to loved ones online. After we all got to talk to family, Stephanie and I headed over to Starbucks while Erin and Leah ate their buffet breakfast. We all met up after this, put our computers back upstairs, and headed out for a day
of SHOPPING!
Goodness! We should have been stopped! Leah, Stephanie, and I shopped till we dropped. Erin was with us, but she displayed amazing restraint. Go Erin! We lost Amanda to the tantalizing purchases and decided to meet up with her later. After the 3 of us shopped so much our feet were killing, we decided we'd begin looking for a massage place. We had already discussed getting a massage on Christmas, so all we had to find was the place. You know that saying, "You see them everywhere till you want one?", well we were experiencing it. We have seen countless massage parlors all over Bang
kok, but when we actually wanted one, we couldn't find it. We finally gave up, went in the mall and ate ice cream! It was delicious by the way - I had Ferrero Rocher(who knew, right?). After downing some burgers(yes, after the ice cream), we met up with Amanda and headed up to the movie theater in the Mall. After searching through the showtimes, we were excited to find a showing of Australia just 5 minutes from then! We quickly bought our tickets, popcorn, and found our theater. OH MY WORD - please, if you haven't already, GO SEE AUSTRALIA!!!! It is an amazing movie. Long, but oh so amazing. After the movie, we were quite famished(to be expected after a day of shopping and an emotional roller coaster).
I must say, I was the one to have the brilliant idea of........HARD ROCK CAFE. We thought of Hard Rock earlier in the week, but never did go. "Why not Christmas?", I thought. So, we headed back to the Marriott to set our things down and so Stephanie and I could grab our things from our sleepover. While we were still in the hotel, we called the restaurant to ask about their wait. Surprisingly, it was only 15 mintues. Nonetheless, we set up a reservation. We hurried out and made our way through the city. We thankfully got there just in time to make our reservation(it took us a little longer than anticipated). It was so awesome! All the waitors and waitresses were wearing santa hats and they had Christmas decorations everywhere. I ordered the Grilled Chicken Mac & Cheese and it was SO GOOD. Leah had the same and I don't remember what everyone else got. I'm sure it was just as delicious though. After our meals, we ordered desserts! Erin and I shared a Hot Fudge Brownie Sundae - yeah, it was just as delectable as it sounds. We were so glad that we decided to share because it was much too big for one person to finish off.
After we finished up at the restaurant, we headed outside to the Christmas festivities! They had a huge picture taking area set up. There were tons of people there snapping away. There were Christmas trees, huge presents, Snow White and the Dwarves statues, huge pop cans, and a ginormous Christmas tree. We had a blast taking goofy pics. It was a lovely way to end the Christmas holiday - with amazing friends. We soon parted ways, and Stephanie and I made our way back to Soi 37. I decided to sleep over at Steph's cause I didn't want to spend the rest of my Christmas alone(that and I was much too lazy to walk home ;) ).
I hope that you had as good a Christmas as I did. I also hope that you were surrounded by those that you love. That is the most important thing. We didn't exchange gifts here in Bangkok and I didn't even miss it. I was just so thankful that I had Erin, Leah, Stephanie, and Amanda there for me to be my family. That was all that I needed to have an amazing day :o)
Rebecca's coming on New Year's Night at 12:30am!!!! Stephanie and I are super stoked about her arrival. I will post pictures of her arrival and such and I'm sure I'll be posting numerous blogs concerning the certain mischeif we'll get into while she's here - ;oP
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