The girl that spent the night looked really cute in the morning. She gave me a really cute photo of her before she left. I then started to get my stuff together for our return to Bangkok. As I cleaned and organized, I thought a lot about the previous day. I had a lot of fun going around the beer bars and almost felt like a celebrity walking around. I finally got the feel for Pattaya and the difference between the two scenes. Now that we were just hours from leaving, I found myself thinking maybe we should stay longer. Well, it didn't really matter. Xen only had a couple days left and we'd have fun no matter where we were. I still had a week, so I could return to Pattaya if I wanted to or go to Manila and Angeles as I had originally planned or even go to Cambodia since it was close and inexpensive.

I needed to do some research on Cambodia and check into flights for the PI so I asked Xen to take care of booking the taxi while I headed to the nearby Internet Cafe. I brought my bag with my valuables with me, didn't want to leave it outside the room with this hotel staff. There was a really cute girl working at the cafe. If she had been a beer bar girl, she definitely would have received d'Art's dart.

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The ride back to Bangkok seemed much different to me. It was daytime and I wasn't tired like I was when we had come. The ride there had been a hazy, unrealistic trip into the unknown. At the time I still had traces of jet lag and wasn't in the best mood. We were returning having had a good last day/night and excited about going back to Bangkok. As we rode back we talked and laughed about some of the adventures that had taken place. I expressed my regret at having passed up the Dollhouse sisters.

I'm surprised that we both forget to mention the Dollhouse sisters. There were a couple girls, both very petite and pretty, that we found attractive. However, they weren't attentive enough to sell us on talking to them and taking them out. One was brunette with darker skin, the other blond with lighter skin. They didn't really look like sisters except for their size, but seeing their interaction made it believable. Anyhow, the Dollhouse sisters were one of the visuals that would come to mind when I thought about Pattaya.

Traffic was heavy in the early afternoon in Bangkok and our driver circled the block before I instructed him to drop us off at the AM/PM on the corner. Xen thought the request was a brilliant idea and praised me for it.

Our return to Majestic would then hit a slight snag, they were booked. A call to Grand President would tell us that they were booked as well. Xen seemed very concerned but I wasn't too worried as my standards for hotels is much lower than his and I really wouldn't have minded staying in a lower quality place. They offered to try to get us a room if some people that had reservations didn't show up by 4pm, an hour away. In the meantime, we decided to do a bit of research in case the guys arrived. Xen decided to check the President Park group in person while I checked our nearby options.

I made a quick pitstop by Nana Plaza to see who was around before continuing past towards Dynasty. Dynasty was completely booked, so I started looking for a place one of the desk clerks at Majestic mentioned. Nana City Hotel was about half a block down past Dynasty on Soi 4. They had rooms available, so I asked to take a look. I didn't like the tiny bathroom, but otherwise the room would have been acceptable to me, particularly at the lower price. I told the lady at the desk I'd return if we didn't get our Majestic rooms. I knew Xen would have hated it, but it was possible that we wouldn't have much choice.

On the way back I stopped by Nana Hotel. They had exactly one room. Nana seemed preferable to me than Nana City, but they had exactly one room available. If Xen got his President Park room, I would probably have stayed here if Majestic was booked.

It didn't matter much to me as we waited for 4pm to approach in the lobby of Majestic. I had Nana and Nana City in line, and if those somehow filled up, I'd just have to stay somewhere like the Prince or another place. There was a tenseness about Xen, though. Room quality was more important to him. As he would tell me, "I want to feel like I'm on vacation when I'm on vacation" or something like that. That meant he needed to be someplace a bit nicer.

We got our rooms, so after settling in we headed out to check MPs. Here was my chance to introduce Xen to Darlings, so we headed East on Sukhumvit towards Soi 12. We wouldn't get a few steps, though, before Xen decided to do a little research on suits. He wanted to compare notes on what the tailors would tell him, so we first stopped in Majestic Tailors.

The prices were considerably higher, so we continued on after taking just a quick gander around. Tailor shops are abundant in Thailand and especially on Sukhumvit. We probably passed one or two before stopping at another one. The Indian guy out front said he liked Americans and called in something like "give these guys the special American price. Xen interpreted it to mean we were being identified as potential rubes. I was thinking the "American" price was probably the same as the "German", "Australian", "French" and every other price.

I just wandered around looking as Xen was educated on materials and such. I caught some of the conversation and inquired about the cost of an overcoat, but for the most part I was thinking of the Dollhouse sisters and Oil.

We continued on to Darlings after that, joking along the way about going into the numerous tailor shops we came across on the way. We also made fun of Mr. Happy a bit, continually saying to one another "and now I will show you ONE more".

At Soi 12, we turned right and headed down a bit to Darlings on the right. There were two or three cute girls in Darlings, but overall I was a bit disappointed. I had built up the place in my mind and to Xen prior, and the selection that was in front of us didn't really justify the higher price. We were both hungry, so I suggested we eat first. We went back to Sukhumvit where there was a nice Italian restaurant near Soi 12. After a quick browse at the menu, we went in and were seated.

Xen commented again about how we ended up in a romantic setting (first Lobster Pot, now here) with the candlelit dinner. After dinner, we returned to Darlings. No new girls had arrived so I really didn't feel like choosing one here for the additional price. Xen ended up choosing the cutest and friendliest girl available (or so it seemed at the time). We agreed to meet at an Internet Cafe near the restaurant.

We then headed towards Soi Cowboy, cutting through the beer bar garden on Sukhumvit between Asok and Soi 23. We ran into a couple 18 year old cuties and had a drink with them, but then decided to continue on leaving the girls as backups.

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Leaving this beer garden brought us to the area where Lólita's was located and Xen started chatting it up with an Aussie who was opening up a beer bar next to Lólita's. It looked pretty desolate without much around it save for Lólita's, but he was optimistic given the very low cost of operating a beer bar. I was somewhat distracted as they chatted, Oil was within close range.

We finally made it to the brightly lit Soi Cowboy and walked down the streets as cute Thai barkers called out to us to visit their bars, but we continued on til the end of the street where Xen and I would split temporarily. He took a right into Tilac while I went left into Long Gun.

Returning to Long Gun was like returning home. Something about the place just made me feel comfortable, I really liked it there. I didn't see Oil at first, but eventually I spotted her. She seems to spend a lot of time backstage when she's not dancing. Since she lives there, she might even just hang out in her room when she can. I only had a single Carlberg before heading over to Tilac to meet Xen.

Xen was sitting with an American (who I'll call Mario) who was currently employed in Japan. Mario was very friendly, but I didn't talk to him that much while in the bar because the music was loud. Xen left shortly to try to make arrangements to try to stay another week. He was having way too much fun to be leaving too soon. He had even debated "accidently" missing the flight.

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I left Tilac shortly thereafter with Mario and we went to check out a few more places around Soi Cowboy. One place of particular interest was near the east end of Soi Cowboy on the north side, I believe it was called Baccarat. A cute young girl was really insistent on bringing me into the bar. We came in and were seated, she was really happy to join us. Near us were two Japanese men arguing with a couple of ladyboys. One of them was obvious, but the other you wouldn't have been able to tell without looking really closely or hearing the voice. Both definitely had male voices. I gave Mario a look to which he replied "Some guys are into that here". Mario was impressed with the girl that was fawning over me, but I didn't really find her attractive enough to take her for now, so I told her we had to go. She was really saddened by this, uncommonly so, almost to the point of crying. I was sorry to see her like this, but I had plans for a bigger catch this evening.

Having walked up and down Soi Cowboy without any clear targets, we decided to catch a cab to Nana Plaza. As we rode in the cab, Mario and I spoke about the wonderful foods that could be found in Thailand. He really surprised me when he brought up one of his favorite snacks as being Red Ants. I mentioned there was an Insect vendor near Nana Plaza, and he was happy to hear this. We stopped at the cart where Mario looked closely over the piles of worms, scorpions, beetles, and other assorted insects. I stood back a bit. The vendor offered Mario a free sample, to which he seemed to have trouble deciding. "Scorpion?" he asked rhetorically. "Naw, I'm not that brave." I nodded from several feet away. He picked up a worm and plopped it into his mouth. "Tasty. You don't have any Red Ants?" The vendor had no idea what he was talking about. Mario liked the worm, but wasn't hungry enough to buy any. We continued towards Nana Plaza. Near the entrance, he found his prize, a vendor selling bags of what appeared to be fried rice with assorted veggies inside. Turned out there were red ants in there. Mario asked if I wanted any, I passed.

We wound up at Playskool. It was getting late, and neither myself nor Mario had targets. Xen wandered in shortly thereafter, he didn't have anyone for the night either. Before we knew it, the lights came on and the place was closing. We hung out a bit in front of Nana and watched the mass exodus. We also browsed the street talent, but didn't find anything interesting. Well actually there was plenty that was interesting, just nothing we would take to our room! One must be careful of some of the street talent, seems to be a lot of ladyboys hanging about.

We were SOL near Nana, so we crossed Sukhumvit and headed north up Soi 3 to the Grace Hotel.

I was hoping to find B from our first night there, but she was nowhere to be found. Pen was there, the second girl I did my first night, but she was occupied with an another guy. There was a friend of Pen's with red streaks in her hair that I thought was cute, but I still wanted to look around. Xen spotted a girl he was considering, then realized it was one of the girls he did on his first night. He didn't even recognize her, but then again, neither did I. She must have done herself up pretty differently because I'm normally really good at recognition.

Pen left the guy she was with a couple times to say hi to me. She looked better than the first night as she now had makeup on. Nevertheless, I was hoping she got barfined because I wanted someone new this evening. Xen was getting tired and didn't find anyone too tempting, so he decided to call it a night and headed back to the hotel. I was a bit tired as well, but I had been slowing down. No way was I going home empty handed tonight!

Pen ended up getting barfined. Red streak was checking me out. I had noticed her looking at me somewhat often while I was with Pen the first night, but she never smiled. For some reason I thought she didn't like me. I begun to realize she just didn't smile much and she was looking at me because she was interested and was waiting for me to make a move. Frustration must have finally set in because she soon waved me over to her table to sit with her.

Our conversation confirmed this as she explained how she liked me and was somewhat bothered that I had ended up with her friend the first night. She became affectionate and soon hand her arms around me. It was not much later than B walked in. Gone was the long hair in tight braids, in its place was short hair slicked back. She looked like a Diva with the heavy makeup and new style, much less appealing than before. She gave me an evil look seeing me in this other girl's arms and even pointed at me. I probably would have gone with her had she shown up early, but she got there too late. She probably was working late or took too long getting our of the go-go bar. I believe she told me she worked at G-spot.

I didn't want to leave with red streak right in front of B, so I hung out for a while until B was out of sight. She either got picked up or went to the bathroom, I'm not sure. The important thing was that she was gone, so I pulled red streak out of the booth and we left the Grace Coffee shop.

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Red streak and I kissed a lot, unfortunately she had smokers breath. Kissing her ended up being one of the factors in a new criteria I ended up considering, if they were smokers.

Red streak was very passionate but the breath was distracting. I tried to kiss her less, but she would have none of it. Still, the session was very satisfying. She got really worked up and tried to pull me in without protection, but I ended up fighting her off. It was a difficult task with all the passion, but I'm in this for the long term so I wasn't about to risk my health like that over a single girl. The interuption was minimal. I got a condom on and we were back in full swing with passionate cigarette kisses and wild sex. We collapsed in bed afterwards. I had to struggle to pull myself out of bed to get cleaned up. Red streak was already passed out when I climbed back into bed. I quickly joined her in La-la land.