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After about an hour or so, we stopped at my dad's hometown of Ayutthaya, to see the temples, and grab a snack called roti, which is an Indian snack, that's a paper thin strechy sweet, buttery desert like "tortilla", with a special tough peanut "cotton candy" filling. After that short stop, we continued, and didn't stop for another 2 hours. After that, the next stop was for lunch, on a parked river boat on the Chao Phraya. I had a Thai staple called Lad Na, noodles stir fried with vegetables chicken, in a special "gravy" or as i call it sauce. My little bro had rice soup, my mom... i forgot, my dad American Fried rice, and our driver.... i forgot as well.
Though, soon after we left on final leg. Stopped at a gas station for gas, bathroom, and drinks. Then we arrived in Kamphang, and right on the outskirts of town we saw my aunt and her husband were driving back from school, where she teaches Kindergarteners. We drove through the town and arrived at their house. The house was 2 stories, but a a very small 2 stories. As most houses they had a gated drive way, there the front door was and in the back an open air kitchen. Through thr front door to the right a bathroom and shoe rack. In front and to the left a wooden guest bed, chairs, a computer, and a glass sliding door leading to my uncles tutoring area. All the way in front is a TV, table, and a fridge. A door perpendicular to that fridge leads to a day bed, and the kitchen. In front of the fridge is a STEEP staircase that leads to 3 bedrooms, and another bathroom.
I stayed a day there. In that time, I saw the school where my aunt works at, and got a good luck charm tied to my wrist from my grandmother, who said to keep it on as long as possible ( It's already fell off, of natural causes ). As well, we went to different open air restaurants, one where they served live prawns taken form a special holding tank! At the second one I had original Thai noodle soup, which is different than Vietnamise style noodle soup in flavor, selection of meats, and selection of noodles. Thats about it, me and my dad didn't even stay for a full 24 hours, we soon left with one of my uncles back to Bangkok. We left my mother and little bro, so they could stay with my aunt, and get to no everyone and everything better, for 2 days. The trip back was reletively quick, with 2 stops for freshly made banana chips, and gas, though we first decided to go to an electronic mall called Zeers. Then we dropped off my uncle so he could go back home, then we went to our home, confusing ain't it?
5th: After day 1 of being away from my mother and brother, I was pretty bored, though the second day was something else. After half a day of playing computer games, my dad decided to take me to the local mall called....... The Mall, very close to our house conveniently 3 bus stops away, and I say this because we decided to ride the bus. Now, as some people might not know, Bangkok's city buses were known notoriously to be hot, and crowded since the buses have NO AC, and temps. in Bangkok often reach 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Now however, times have changed, most buses are now AC, even though some of the old ones still run, the new ones have taken over mostly, as well as being AC, they are also much larger, which means more seats, so its roomier than the old ones. We took the bus down to the stop closest to the Mall. From there we crossed the PACKED street, and walked under the highway underpass, then crossed the street again to the mall. There we walked through the entire mall, went to an internet cafe, got lunch, and my dad bought some sports equipment. The bus back was a another story, we waited for like half an hour, and the bus we got on was packed, standing room only, but we arrived home soon, and we went to Zeers again afterwards.