Thailand Adventures- Part 10 Ayutthaya

DRIVE SOUTH (Day 4)

March 5 continued

Ayutthaya hotel great except for massage mix-up.  Dinner very yummy and had cherries jubilee--fun to watch make.  Washer, but no dryer, so clothes all over room.  Thankfully, spin cycle was fast (sounded like plane taking off).  Tried to find cool floating market that does folk tales with people in the water.  No luck.  Did however get to feed fish from a bottle.  Elephant snuck a sip from fish fountain and sprayed itself right next to us.  It was really that hot.  Last leg in car only supposed to be 1 1/2 hrs, but lost and confused took 4 hrs!  Kids did great, though.  Stopped at first fast food whole trip.  Ronald McDonald statue doing a wai greeting funny.  

No Dryer = Clothes Everywhere

Rachel singing & playing with her Princesses

My little puppies rolling on the floor

Ayutthaya Ruins

Ayutthaya superseded Sukhothai as the most powerful kingdom in Siam during the mid-14th century.  Blarty, blar, blar (feel free to skip the factoid I'm providing and move straight to the pictures--I give you permission).  By the mid-16th century, Ayutthaya controlled the entire Central Plains area and at its height it controlled much of what is now Thailand.  The capital was destroyed by Burma in 1767.
The ruins are spread throughout the modern city and were hard for us to navigate.  Maybe we were just in the wrong spot, but even though both ruins had similar architecture, Ayutthaya ruins were not as impressive as the Sukhothai ruins, in my opinion.

We were trying to find the Ayutthaya Floating Market Water Theatre.  But instead of finding this:

We found this:

Classy, eh?  After sweating bullets wandering around trying to find the show and asking numerous Thai to no avail, we gave up.  If you think feeding fish from a bottle can't compare to watching a folk story reenacted in water....Well, you would be right.  However, don't underestimate the lure of bottle-feeding fish.  Delightful.