We checked out of Kokotel after bfast, and hit the road for another 2-hour ride, to head back to Bangkok.
Was Pattaya interesting? Well, we did do a couple of interesting activities. However, maybe it was the location of our hotel, or maybe Pattaya was largely a sleepy old town with many retired ang mos. It is seriously an old ang mos paradise, even Nana noticed and commented on the old ang mos and young thais combination. Ya, very obvious. They were everywhere. This made me looked forward to the vibrant and exciting Bangkok.
The car that picked us seemed to be slightly bigger bcos I felt like we had more space in the back. I worked almost the entire way, a perfect time to check mounting emails.
We arrived at our hotel at about 12pm. The hotel room wasn't ready and we decided to hit Platinum Mall for lunch and shopping. The trusted Platinum Mall foodcourt. Passed!
Nana went crazy with the shopping. Zaky said that he had nothing to buy, having bought a couple of T-shirts the night before. But shortly after we arrived, he bought like another 3 T-shirts. Lol.
From the Mall, we took a grab to the activity of the day - Stella Art Cafe. I googled for interesting workshops in Bangkok and this turned up. I wanted to do the leather wallet one too but it wasn't available on the dates that we could.
So what is the Stella Art Cafe? It is some painting on ceramic plates/ saucers/ cups that we could bring home. When I booked it online, I knew that it would be expensive but I was still shocked at how expensive it really is when I paid for it. Inclusive of tax and an extra THB1k to expedite the firing, we paid THB6.4k. That is like S$250 to color some plates. Lol.
It was a good family bonding experience.
We then realised how hard work it was.
Lucky I brought my old people glasses or wouldn't be able to complete my painting without blinding myself.
The completed products.
We were all very proud of our work. It was an afternoon (over 2 hours) and money well-spent.
We left Stella Art Cafe and took a grab to Chatuchak. The last time I was at Chatuchak with Daddy Lim, I had a great time and had high hopes. The night market turned out more meh. Maybe bcos some of the stalls were/ had closed for the day, or the pavements were too bumpy to wheelchair Nana properly and we skipped most of the inner lanes, or Zaky was tired and whinny. The combination of all made us stayed probably for about 2 hours and I didn't get that triumphant feeling. Zzzzzz..
At least we had decent Thai food. We didn't order a lot bcos we thought we would whack more street food but we didn't. I think we were too hot and tired. We just had a lot of ice creams, smoothies, sodas instead.
And we bought more stuff. Hoho.
We took the grab back to the hotel and finally checked in to the hotel room - Center Point Pratunum Hotel. I decided to spend big(ger than normal) $$ in the Bangkok hotel for greater accessibility. The room was huge and won plenty of praises from Daddy Lim. Passed! He said that we can even wheel the wheelchair around in the room. Errrr.. for what ah?
Zaky and I went for our 2nd massage of the trip. Nana was too lazy to tag along and the massage was great! She missed it. As it was earlier in the evening, the massage places were not crowded and we scored each a THB100 discount without even the need to bargain. Lol. Happy siol.
While massaging, my tummy was growling and we bought supper from 7-11.
The kids were all lying when they said that they were not hungry bcos they always eat when we buy. In fact, Daddy Lim and I had to make round 2 to buy more food for supper. Oh yes, we were going to roll home.
Our loot for that day. Yes, another tie between the kids.
Good night!
Mummy Lim
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