Thai Massage

I told you I would be getting a Thai massage every day- and well, it’s not been quite that often- two full body massages and one half massage.

Massage One:
Windy and I walked in and asked for a Thai massage. The led us to a room- where there were clothes laid out for us. Interesting. I’ve never been massaged professionally with my clothes on before. And then there was some fun with foreign culture when we tried to figure out the pants: the waist was huge and the ties were unusual. It’s kinda a visual. Turned out we had the pants on backwards. Oops. Then the two masseuses, masseuse, masseurs? came into the room and massaged us in tandem, each of us laying on a mat on the floor within reaching distance of each other. Lots of laying on hands and pushing down on the muscles. Lots of thumbs doing the same (which I hate!) Lots of pressing and pulling and stretching you out- at one point the guy working on me put his foot against my inner thigh, grabbed my ankle, and while pushing my body away with his foot, pulled my foot away with his hand! It was, all in all, wonderful. But strange. And not being able to communicate to my masseuse as to what works and what doesn’t is interesting…

Massage Two:
In a busy mall like food court like place, very noisy, same style but this time with our own clothes and the two masseurs chatting away like hens the whole time. Also, just our necks, backs and shoulders, also cheaper! But much less relaxing.

Massage Three:
This time we asked for oil massage. (I may go in for a warm oil massage this week). This time in separate rooms with no sheets on the massage mat (on the floor again!) and just a towel, much more like massages at home but I was uncertain of what to do… (figured out the second towel was not to lie on but to shower with afterwards to get the oil off- I left it on, it made my skin feel so good and soft!) wrapped the towel around myself- turned out I was supposed to drape it across myself and lay naked on the massage mat- it has a covering just not a clean sheet for every new massage… again with the pushing and pulling and pressure, but much less thumbs, more sweeping strokes. Wonderful! And the best part? $10. $10 for an hour!!!! With tip!