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So we went to Bangkok for Thanksgiving to gobble up padthai
and durian instead of choking down green jello.

It was warm and
peaceful.

Well sort of.

That’s because Thai citizens made international news over the holiday weekend due to a
peaceful demonstration about their govt.

Of course, I got caught in the middle of it. Our  hotel, Soi 31, is located on Sukhumvit, which is the seedy Michigan Avenue of Bangkok. And,  just a whistle blow away from the ASOK BTS train
stop where Friday’s demonstration took place.

About a gazillion and a half Thai men, women, and he-shes were 
blowing a gazillion and a half whistles, like the ones you used to get out of cracker jack boxes.

I don’t know who this guy was talking to–there is no way he could have heard anything. It was definitely not his fashion adviser.

Now was the Thai demonstration non-violent?  

Yes.

Peaceful?

Hardly.

Now our hotel pool was peaceful.

This anatomically correct sculpture was peaceful.

Street Gods were peaceful, probably because they were
appeased by refreshing bottles of strawberry fanta.

Anyway, I didn’t stay around for the news cameras. I boarded
the subway and made my way to the world’s largest gold Buddha, which was peaceful.

…and saw the world’s largest solid gold butt crack.

So, what’s your idea of a peaceful holiday, or is “a peaceful holiday” the ultimate oxymoron?