We took BTS to Chatuchuk at around 10am. 

We spent the whole morning there and headed back to Siam to have Japanese food for lunch and then met  Rudeeporn.

Rudeeporn took her daughter Gwow, an adorable 10-year old, with her.  We hired another MPV to take us to Amphawa, a local floating market frequented by Thai, thus less touristy.   The ride was around 1 hour.

Rudeeporn said that Amphawa's floating market only operates on weekend evenings.  We arrived at Amphawa at around 4:30pm and toured around Wat Amphawan Chetiyaram, an over 200 years old temple.  After that we headed for the canal.  The street was full of hawkers selling all kinds of groceries, food and clothing so the street was literally packed.

We further strolled along the canal and found that a lot of accessory stores along it.  I bought my favorite BYOB there and some extras as souvenir for Tracy and my sister.

We finally squeezed ourselves out from the crowd to this coffee shop with a roof top.  This is indeed a balcony on the roof overlooking the canal.  Nice nice.. Rudeeporn suggested that we could go on a boat trip on the canal to watch fireflies.  I had never seen any firefly and I was excited to it.  We hired a boat for ourselves for BHT500.  We started our journey at around 6pm making a stop at Wat Chulamani.  After it went all dark, our boat strolled along the bushed shore and then we saw them... it's amazing, like sparkling lights on a Christmas tree!  Our 'captain' said that it was not indeed the season for fireflies!  What a pity the lights were not strong enough for us to capture them on camera nor video.

After the trip had finished, we damn tourists went shopping again!  Poor Rudeeporn and her daughter Gwow accompanied us until approx. 8pm and we headed back to Bangkok.  The car dropped us off at Central World again as the girls wanted to buy some more snacks for souvenirs.  We eventually headed back to hotel at around 10pm.  Very tired but contented.