There was tons and tons to see there. They sell everything from pottery, pets (monkeys too!), dishes, clothing, fake plants, tacky touristy items, paintings, sculptures, what appears to be stolen jewelry, and everything else you can think of. They even sell roasted cockroaches....
....which Martine and I had to try. It didn't taste that bad actually. Very salty, and a little rough/hard to chew through. I look more concerned in the second picture because, well, I started to think about the fact that I was eating a cockroach.
After a while of moseying around in the pet section and looking at some art, we found ourselves quite lost. Which, it being chatuchak, wouldn't have been so bad had it not been for the fact that we were lost in the gigantic fish section - not the most exciting part of the market. Mary and I left the other two girls early to go get massages (my fourth one since being here), and we never did find our way back to the entrance from which we entered.
The next day I woke up, stretched, and waddled over to my washroom. I was jolted awake when I looked up and saw this staring back at me from my counter:
A little praying mantis! I have no idea how he got into my apartment or how he went unnoticed for so long. But there he was! I did the Buddhist way and gently placed him outside on my balcony. Last time I saw him he was halfway up my balcony door......maybe he came to seek revenge for his fallen insect brethren?
Do you get a lot of bugs in your apartment? seems like a pretty big one to just sneak through a hole in the screen
ReplyDeleteI doubt there are screens on the windows. Lots of tropical places don't.
ReplyDeleteAuntie Sharon is having a hard time posting a comment so I am posting this so I can hopefully guide her.
My new apartment doesn't have a lot of bugs. I have seen a few spiders, which I have let be, and my bathroom has had a few bugs that look like fruit-flies. The person that moved into my old apartment has had the same problem with ants as I have had, though.
ReplyDeleteActually all of the apartment windows that open (in my case, my balcony door), do have screen windows. I haven't seen many other screens though. But anyway, I have no idea how that guy got into my apartment. I don't see any holes that would be big enough for him to fit through!
I am glad for it though, as the mosquitoes here are a killer! They make a few of us 10x itchier, which leaves us with sores on our legs from scratching too much.