Bangkok - Wat Pho

After our adventure out to the Ancient City complex, Onions and I hopped on the bus all the way across Bangkok (and being misguided a couple times by bus attendants who apparently couldn't read maps...this will be important later) and arrived at the famed Wat Pho, one of the largest and most famous wats in the world.

It's biggest claim to fame is the 160 foot reclining golden buddha.  This one I couldn't climb all over!

As it got dark and we walked along the river to see other wats lit up....beautiful.

We decided to get on a river boat a few stops and then take the bus back to our hotel.  For some reason we couldn't find the bus stop we needed and ended up walking a ways.  Being that it was New Year's Eve, traffic was all crazy and there were diversions everywhere.  We were lucky to find a taxi and at this point I was frustrated so (in a totally new mode for me) I let Onions take over.  He got the taxi driver to take us to a subway station.  But we were dropped off at the train station.  At this point, Onions threw a fit (it was funny) and complained about "how can these people be so uneducated to be unable to read a map."  The best thing I learned about Onions is that (it's happened a couple times) is that his anger dissipates quickly.  He doesn't stay mad for more than five minutes.  Even when he gets angry with me, which is actually rare.  Luckily we were near a subway station and so we got home with relative ease.  But we decided NOT to go out on New Year's Eve, but stayed in, watched TV and fell asleep before midnight!  I could not have been any happier.