Lost in Bangkok

This morning we set off to find another way to the main tourist part of Bangkok. We set off in a mini van. The reason we decided to do this is that one end of the mini van's line is in front of our hotel. So, we paid our fare to one of the malls, from which we could catch the subway the rest of the way. We missed our mini van stop and only get out when the mini van reached its destination at the other end of the line, which was sort of OK since it ended at another mall. Except, we had no idea where we were. So, like the brave Americans we are, we took refuge in a McDonald's and waited for the mall to open. When the mall opened we went in and looked around and discovered it had the department store called "The Mall" inside it. Which was mainly interesting because near our hotel is a mall with "The Mall" inside it also. Well, after Laura looking at yarn, and threatening to buy the store out of its US $10 per skein yarn, we went to customer service to find out where in Bangkok we were. After we walked up to customer service and asked for help, they called a lady who spoke good English and she explained we were so far off course we weren't even still on our little tourist map of Bangkok. She gave us directions on which bus to catch to connect with the Sky Train, which then connected with the subway to get us back to our original destination. As the bus we were on got on the freeway we began to believe that we had gone quite a way out of our way. Anyway, the bus eventually got us to Monument Circle, where we caught the Sky Train to Siam Square, a new destination which we had decided on for lunch. After lunch, we caught the Sky Train to the Subway, and then to the mall which was our original destination when we set out hours earlier. From the mall we caught a city bus back to our hotel. All this could have been avoided by taking a taxi in the first place, and probably would have ended up being cheaper, but not nearly half the fun.