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Som Tam is my favorite Thai salad, one I have previously raved about in other posts.  There are lots of yummy Thai salads: Pomelo (a huge humongous grapefruit-like sweet fruit) Salad, Green Bean Salad, Mango Salad, just to name a few.  They are usually very spicy and have chilies floating around in their sauce, along with mini-dried shrimps.  Here’s a pic.  I also took a pic of my Som Tam lady’s shop that I like.  I call her “my” Som Tam lady because she is set up right by our bus stop we take a couple times a day, many times a week.  She takes forever some days, but it’s worth the wait.

Irene, a 3-month intern here from DC, is soon returning to the States and is just getting around to see some of Bangkok’s tourist sites, one of which we visited together last week on our day off. Tori, another intern from Edmonton, Alberta, also came – along with the other thousands of tourists that came too! Now that we are in full-fledged Dry season (this translates to the Cold season also: hot -85 or so degrees- but less humid) and the holidays are coming up, this is Thailand’s high season of tourism. From our home in Prawet, it took us about 2 hours to get to the Grand Palace, since you take a taxi to the sky train to boat taxi along the river. Here are some pics of our day….the Grand Palace and the Temple inside the Palace walls is a massive compound of several buildings.  Inside you must change into  modest clothing – a long skirt or pants and a sleeved shirt if you are not already wearing these things.  For some resaon the changing room lady did not ask me & Tori to change but asked Irene to – we’re not sure why since we were all wearing basically the same covering of clothing!  So she changed into the Palace’s choice of clothes they ledn to the thousands of tourists – button-down shirt and long sarongey skirts.