New Years Eve

After saying our good-byes we were off to Thailand for the remaining part of our trip. We arrived about 3:30 on the 31st, and went straight to our hotel, The Ambassador, a recomendation from Susan. It was really nice and we got a fairly good deal @ only $31 a night. Although to get that room rate we had to buy ticket to the hotels New Years Eve bash. It was $63, but with the promise of 4 hours of entertainment and an international buffet.

Julie Barr a friend of Jenny's met up with us in Bangkok and got to enjoy the shindig with us... well at least I hope she enjoyed it. The music was just loud enough to help drown out any hope at having meaningful conversation, so needless to say it was hard enough to talk amongst ourselves let alone anyone else at the table.

The buffet opened at 8:00 and that was about the time we got to our table, the spread was good but I have eaten better, and it came with one complimentary drink, I was hoping for champagne but that wasn't a freebee, oh well.

Then there was the entertainment zzz, a fairly lame magician, and then there were different bands and singers and oh yes let's not forget the Cabaret show. I'm not sure if they were all cross-dressers but the weirdest one who lypsynced to some scarry Thai music, of which I think we were glad we didn't understand the words, definately was. By the time midnight rolled around probably half of the crowd was gone. Even if you didn't see the empty seats you would have known because towards the end of the evening as they were drawing for prizes they kept having to draw over and over. I think the final prize they called out about 8 numbers before someone actually won.

But anyway we got to keep the cool party hats and noise makers so maybe the evening wasn't all that bad...