Temply Temperton.

Please, put your dang pants back on! What the heck? This is NOT that kind of blog. Show some restraint for crying out loud. God, I'd be so embarrassed right now if I were you. Anyway, we went to Bangkok and saw Wat Phra Kaew and Wat Pho and Wat Traimit (and Wat Arun but we'll come to that later) and I thought it wouldn't hurt to let you, esteemed audience, know what it was like. 'Wat' means 'temple'.

To start off, here is a world premiere: A picture of Christina and me plus Wattanikha and Dimitar as an added bonus. I actually never posted a picture of us on here before, so be careful.

From left to right, that's some woman with a jeans jacket, a little girl in pink with a bike, Dimitar, Christoph, Wattanikha, and Christina. Since I don't have a lot of time right now, but don't want to keep you waiting until I finally put out another stupid array of words to go in between pictures, I'm making this quick and painless. These are some of the pictures we took at Wat Phra Kaew:

As you can see, gold is fairly popular and thanks to the sun shining mercilessly everything was sparkling. I especially liked those dudes carrying that one golden thing. It has a name, but I don't know it. Look it up on Wikipedia if you're so dang interested in it. We were unable to see the famous Emerald Buddha from a close distance because there was something special going on and a whole bunch of monks were sitting everywhwere.

Next stop: Wat Pho, home of the world's largest reclining Buddha. There is a Buddha for every day of the week, each in a different position. The reclining Buddha is for Tuesday. Everybody has a Buddha according to the day of the week they were born on. I was born on a Wednesday, and Wednesday has one for the morning, and one for the night. I was born in the afternoon, but pick the one where Buddha goes to the jungle to consult wih the elephants and monkeys over the one where Buddha asks for alms. Here is the huge reclining Buddha for all you Tuesday kids:

Okay, no words necessary. As I understand, the house was built around the Buddha. Also, we had to take our shoes off to go in. I have one more picture of a Buddha. This is the famous gold (not golden!) Buddha in Wat Traimit. That temple is in Chinatown and there was an unbelievable downpouring of rain (what else, frog feet?) while we were walking there. Luckily we found shelter close by. But that rain and the thunder were incredibly heavy and loud. It was awesome. The Buddha weighs like 5 tons and is completely made out of gold. You can't help but look good right next to it.

From left to right that's me, Dimitar and the gold Buddha. Just in case you were wondering. Sorry it's a little blurry. It's art, plus we got caught in some disruption in the universe's blurriness factor gravitation force factor, caused by that frightening thunder. If you are a Buddhist, it is good luck to attach little leaf gold pieces to Buddha statues. Not these main ones of course, but another one sitting to the side or somewhere else in the temple. In general, a lot of things are good luck in Thailand and they also have little shrines in front of houses to pay tribute to the spirits that guard the house. One shrine can work for a group of buildings too. Same with big trees. They put big ribbons around them for the spirits inhabiting them. German spirits are out of luck, cause I had never seen or heard of that before in my home country.