Day 162 Jan 13 2015 Phuket Thailand

three monkeys

Trickeye Museum in Phuket

Thai street food

enjoying the thai street food

Day 162  Jan 13 2015  Phuket Thailand

I had to wash underwear in the sink last night as we were out of clean ones. We started the day by loading our backpack with dirty clothes and walking to the laundry. When we got there we think we arranged to have our laundry washed and ready to pick up tomorrow by 6 pm.  I am not so sure that the communication was that good so I am interested to see what will happen when we go to pick it tomorrow.  After we dropped the laundry off, David and I went for a haircut, the cost was very similar to what we would pay in Canada, I think we got the tourist rate.  In the afternoon we decided to go for a walk to the Thai Hua Museum, after walking for quite a while we realized that we had taken a wrong turn and were nowhere near the museum.   We were about to turn around and walk back to the hotel when we saw the first taxi of the day.  We ended up getting him to take us to a viewing platform overlooking the city where we got some nice pics.  That was followed by a trip to the Trick Eye Museum which was a museum with lots of painting that you could take pics with you posing in them, making it look like you were part of the painting.   The kids and Evy loved the museum and I thought it was ok but a little pricey for what it was.  The driver then asked us if he could take us to a souvenir shop as he would get stamps for gas if he did.  We agreed thinking that we would not buy anything and we would see a local shop.  We ended up buying Isabel a necklace and me a silk shirt as the prices were extremely cheap.  The driver then took us to a sea food restaurant, when we realized that the meal would be very expensive we finished the drinks we had ordered and left.  We then took the taxi to a shopping mall that was surrounded by Thai street food vendors.  We ended up eating the same food that we would have at the first restaurant for a fraction of the price.  I had 4 grilled tiger shrimp, David had bbq squid, Isabel 2 dishes of green mussels in basil sauce and Evy ordered tom yam soup with side orders of fried rice, steamed rice, vegetables, slushy fruit drinks.  The entire bill was less than $45 CAD and the ambience was great, in the street with cars going buy.  The Thai street food is as good if not better than a lot of travel guides say.  We never did make it to the Thai Hau Museum.