I didn’t know it before our arrival, but Bangkok is the city most visited by tourists in the world, recently surpassing London and New York. It’s developing rapidly which has led to state-of-the-art modern architecture along side haphazard structures and with no centralized downtown area, there are lone skyscrapers jutting out of neighborhoods all over the city. On our first family outing, we took the sky train to a longboat ferry which dropped us off at the “Asiatique” night market. The ride there was as entertaining as the market itself since there were plenty of interesting sights to behold along the way.
The longboat ferry ride had me feeling a little nervous. There is a lot of boat traffic on the river, so the waves generated by other boats are substantial and when you’re sitting about a foot off the water in a shallow, rickety wooden boat, it’s a tad nerve wracking.
I was relieved when we reached our destination. Our plan was to ride the giant Ferris wheel, but Eliza and Georgia spotted a carousel and they sweet talked their papa into letting them go on that too. Every time the carousel ride would stop, the operator would say, “Pick another animal, you go again.” He might’ve let them go all night, but they called it quits after their 3rd ride. 
Then it was off to the ferris wheel for the thrill seekers (myself not included). They had amazing views of the city way up there.
The night market was full of amazing shops, and we found a lot of great treasures, but the highlight of the evening was Eliza and Georgia’s foot spa:
Talk about fearless sisters! A passerby delightfully observed the girls’ fish spa treatment before asking them how it felt. “It tickles!”
It really tickles!
“Keep feet in water 15 minutes!”
They were quite the spectacle….of course that’s true even when their feet aren’t submerged in water covered with hundreds of tiny nibbling fish.
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