Port Football Club!

Last night we went to support our local football team - Port FC!

We headed to Pat Stadium, about a 50 min walk from our apartment (stopping for a chocolate waffle on the way for a sugar boost!) We got there about 2 hrs before kick-off to get our tickets and soak up the excitement. Tickets cost 100 baht (£1.84!), i was hoping to pick up a lovely orange and blue team supporters shirt for £10 - unfortunately they were out of my size! 

With tickets in hand the excitement building we decided to get a Change Beer and chill with the locals before the match. Outside the stadium you can pick up street food, popcorn or jam with the team drum players practicing their tunes for the match. I'm not sure who they played, but their supporters wore neon pink - wish that was my team's color!!

     

Inside the stadium you can sit wherever you want, well as soon as the match started everyone stands anyways ! After the National Anthem, the drummer starts and its all go! 

I found a cosy spot to watch a bit of the game before falling asleep - I had a lovely little 10 min nap before Kev woke me up for a half time teat - caramel popcorn!

After the sugar boost and the promise of leaving 20 min early, i got into the game and voila... they scored!! (winning goal caught on pic below) And the crowd went crazy!!!! Cried of joy, streamers, shirts off!!! They won! 

The winning goal!

We're going to become season-ticket holders (Yay!) and hopefully next time they will have a shirt my size so i can at least look the part of a full on supporter! I may even learn the rules too! 

Last match of the season is next week Sunday-  then from Feb 2016 - watch ut for weekly updates about Port FC!

...and the crowd goes crazy! Go Port FC!

Thai Boxing - MBK!

On Wednesday night we went to watch Thai Boxing at MBK Shopping Center.

It takes place every Wednesday night and its free! For 3 hrs you can watch fights and all the drama that goes along with this crazy sport! We watched the ladies round, i think they might be more violent than the men - i would not like to be in the ring with them. They kick, punch, elbow smack...and if no-one drops to the floor the ref decides who wins.

I just love the cute little shorts they wear - gotta get me some of those in pink!

Monkey Business!

Yesterday we headed to Lopburi for their annual Monkey Party! Yep - a party - for Monkeys!!!

We got the Sky Train to Asok, then the subway to Hua Lamphong then got a train to Lapburi - 150 km north of Bangkok. The train journey took 3 hrs and cost us each 50bht (92p). Once there, we headed toward the Phra Prang Sam Yot temple about a 3 min walk from the station. Basically we just followed the noise! 

Entrance fee to the Monkey Party was also 50 bht... and what a party! Every year this little village hosts a party to honor their Macaques Monkeys...aka. little terrors! They have free range of the town and the locals believe they bring good luck and fortune to the town. Every day the locals bring food to the Monkeys but once a year, on the last Sunday in November they have a banquet party and present the Monkeys with soda, energy drinks, fruit, eggs, rice pudding, chocolates and lots of other yummy treats! 

The Monkeys love all the attention and pose for the tourists, but watch out....if you get too close they will jump on you, grab your sun glasses, phones, cameras and terrorise you! I got jumped. I got terrorised! One little bugger jumped on me and went straight for my earring... he was a pro - knew exactly what to do! Then another little fella jumped on me, opened my bag and started to chew my i-phone charger. Then they decided to give me a new hair-do and then....then... well they pooed all over me!!! I could smell something bad after my encounter with them and some very sweet, half laughing girl gently informed me 'Hey - you know you got Monkey Shit all over ya right?!' Eeeekkkkk!!! OMG!!! Kev got most of it off but there was no hiding what had happened, my already brown top was a much darker brown at the back! I'm told that little experience will bring me good luck...it better!

The Monkeys were then presented with their buffet tables and its all go! The tables are covered in red tablecloths and full of delicious treats. They grab the energy drinks, cola and chocolate bars first...it's brilliant, they they go in for the other treats. They throw food at each other and the tourists and really do have the most awful table manners. The baby monkeys were just too cute, they got so excited to see the lovely spread, i wanted to take one home with me but had enough monkey memorabilia already.

The 3 hr train journey back to Bangkok was super hot (no air-con!) and packed! Luckily i got a seat to myself as no one wanted to sit next to the girl smelling like a Monkey Loo, sweaty and with only one earring in...oh the state of me!