Day 24
Today we did laundry for the first time since we got here. We put all of our clothes our backpacking backpacks and walked to washing station about a half a mile away. The washing station was one that we had walked passed many times on our way to the school supply store and to the rootz rock reggae bar. We had seen a few other washing stations but this one was the closest. Nick told us a place where you could drop your laundry off and pick it up the next day for 30 baht a kilo. We werent sure how much laundry we had, so we decided to do it ourselves to try and save some money. The laundry station we went to had a pretty interesting set up. There were 8 washing machines and two dryers. One load to wash was 20 baht, about 70 cents, and drying was 10 baht.The dryer sounded like a good deal, until we realized you needed about six cycles of drying to do the job.There was a woman who worked the station, she made sure the machines were working, provided change if needed, and looked after your clothes. While our clothes were washing we went to grab lunch. We got lunch at the vendor that we went to a few days ago, the one where the woman gave us too much change. We ordered chicken pad Thai, it was amazing. After lunch we went back to the washing station. There was still some time left on the machine. Ryan stayed with the clothes, and I walked to a used bookstore across the street. I was impressed with their selection. Most of the books were in English with a small selection in German, Chinese, French, and Spanish. I was happy to find the store since I only brought one book with me. When I returned to the washing station the clothes were done. We folded them and headed back to our apartment. It had been a while since we went to the night bazaar so we decided we would go and get dinner. We ate at the food court.We ordered Indian food, the portions were small for the price, but the food was good. While we were in the area we decided to look for meditation retreat clothes, since the retreat requires us to wear all white clothing. I had a few white shirts that I brought with me, but no pants, and Ryan doesnt own anything white. We walked around for a good hour, asking for prices and negotiating with people. After being hustled by kids and little old women, we found a store that sold us thin long sleeve white shirts for a good price.We bought three. After the night bazaar we decided to go back to the place we got lunch and get a smoothie as a dessert. When we got there,the woman was happy to see us. We ordered two banana smoothies to go. While we were sitting there,,a small group of tourists walked up to look at the menu.You could see that they were contemplating whether or not to eat there. Ryan turned around and said ,"its really good, you should eat here". The woman added in the fact that we had been twice in the same day. The comment sold them, and they sat down and ordered food. A minute later the woman walked over to us and gave us some orange slices, as a token of gratitude.From here, we went back to our apartment and ended our night with reading and meditating.
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