6th Report Thailand 2022 July 24, 2022 Quiet day in Pattaya. Went to the movies today. Saw Jurassic Park movie. I have never seen so many angry dinosaurs opening their big scary mouths with lots of teeth and heard people scream. It is a screamer. I almost walked out initially and after a while I got into it. Really. It did have a plot other than screaming at fighting, growling dinosaurs. Glad this type of movies was not around in my youth. It has the potential for a lot of night mares. I figured out today that I was missing my escape cloths (clothes that I wore here and plan to leave wearing). One of the items was an expensive vest that I wanted for sure to get back. I went to the laundry facility first thing this morning and needed to walk in an alley to the laundry facility itself. Fortunately it was still there and I was able to retrieve it. Terrific. The breakfast area was full today so ate breakfast by the swimming pool. I ended up with a lot of little mosquito bites and itching ankles. They find me delicious even in El Paso. So I could not stand it any longer. I went to a telecommunication center where they sell lots of telephones an sim cards and up graded my iPhone 5 travel phone with a juiced up sim card. I talked them down in price since I would be only using it a week. I am afraid to have them put one of their sim cards in my iPhone 12. Tomorrow is bridge. I will get another one of their vegetarian pies to take home. It was delicious. Monday July 26 Did long walk to find room other then where I am staying in future trips. I used face time and took Linda for a beach view as I walked. Nice views. After long walk, I ended up on Soi 10 and visited three hotels there and a sample room in each. Page 10, The Stay and See Me. The Page 10 was the most impressive and a guest in the lobby said the wifi is terrific. The Stay had nice balcony with no view. It was still very nice. The See Me had the best view with their Sea Deluxe. Get to see the beach with full landscape (the meal arrangements seem shaky). I went to one last hotel next to my present hotel called the Centra Hotel, down an alley and the rooms seemed small. So this is my research for a future hotel. My present room at the Areca is nice. The floor has chipped linoleum at entrance. The bathtub needs to be caulked and spills water on the floor when I shower. I wrote a report on this to the front desk and my maid later informed me that all the rooms are like that. My wifi in this room is sporadic so I do not like that. A disqualifier. Also, I have to walk a number of steps to get to and from the room. This is also a disqualified. I do not want to fall down and the steps make me vulnerable to do that. At 78 I am susceptible to fall down. Monday, July 26, played bridge with John one of the bridge coordinators. The opponents are very good. I made at least two mistakes and yet we did not come in last. As usual, the trip to the place we play bridge at (The Meat Stuff) was and exciting motorcycle ride. Took baht buses to my favorite vegan restaurant and repeated having a gorgeous Vega ham burger.