I have sweated out my pee

Hello Everyone!
I hope you are doing well. I have safely made it to Thailand! It is strange to me that it is 7:35 PM here right now, and 8:35 AM in Michigan. I have literally lost a day through the time change, haha. Today was our first full day in Bangkok, and it was very busy.
We woke up and had a breakfast that consisted of fruit, tea, and toast. It was nom nom and completely free! Yay for free. Not that meals are expensive here 3 bucks is the most we have paid.
After breakfast we decided to make our way to the Grand Palace. Since it was hot as bollocks outside, we both wore shorts and t-shirts. As we were looking for the boat port a man came up to us and asked where we were going, after we told him, he told us to turn around and go home. What we were wearing was considered disrespectful to wear in the environment of the Grand Palace. This is completely understandable, but it is hard to be culturally competant when you are sweating bullets. So, we went home to change...when we walked out if was even HOTTER! The hottest of all the hots! No cloudy patches.
That's when the water drinking started....so much water...luckily it only costs about 35 cents for a bottle of water, so it's no big deal...I must have had about eight 500 mL bottles of water and only peed like once. My theory is that instead of peeing, I have been sweating so much that I don't have enough liquids in me to pee! hahahah. I would probably be bladder scanned in a hospital situation except nothing is there, since I sweated it all out. INSANE!
Anyway, the Grand Palace was an intricate masterpiece with gold everywhere. I'll put up pics later, on picasa of course.
After this we decided to walk around...we discovered that some people are just bastards. ESPECIALLY TUK TUK DRIVERS! One of them told us that since it was Friday it was a free day for tourists at some places to encourage more people learning about Thai culture. So, we picked a place we wanted to go to....NOT FREE! and we paid the fee to get there...ugh. haha. and it was underconstruction and not even worth going into, hahaha....oh my.
We did end up climbing to the top of this great temple though, with scary steep steps that if you tripped down would ensure you being either crippled or dead, but we both survived and it was fantastic.
We both had a yummy dinner. Speaking of dinner, I'm getting thirsty again! So, I'm going to drink more water. Delicious ice cold water. The kind that makes your mouth happy! Tomorrow we are going to the floating market, and it's about to be the bomb!!!!

Later,

Minna :o)