Bangkok Day 1 (continued)

The Grand Palace complex was stunning. Absolutely unreal. I had not read in advance anything about it, therefore was told I couldn't enter till I got pants (I had on shorts since it was 92 and muggy today), luckily the locals take advantage of this, and have these lightweight cotton pajama pant type pants that all the tourist were throwing on over their clothes. (On a funny side note- I saw a guy in the Bangkok airport wearing a pair of these- and I was like "omg- he is just a mess!" and now I have a pair of my own!" LOL). So when you see the one picture of me below, DO NOT by any means think I willingly bought these at a store, and said "yes- this is the most appropriate look for the day"- I have not gone Grey Gardens on you.

The level of minute detail on all the buildings was unlike anything I had ever seen. I took over 100 pictures just on the outsides of the buildings. When the light hits all the metallic chips, and jewels, it really shimmers. Many of the temples' had "windchime" like bells at the edges of the roofline, so the palace grounds have a nice musical chiming all day long. The entry to the palace was only 500BHT ($15) and was so worth it.