We are home, and after a month on the road we are deep in all the re-entry wiggles and wobbles. It takes a few days to get everyone and everything and every feeling all straightened out :).
We spent our last three days in Bangkok. For all its big city glam there are plenty of street side sellers roasting and frying and grilling their treats for passer-by.
One block past this tin-roofed pancake stand we rode an escalator up three flights of stairs and boarded the sky train.
You get a little bit of everything in Bangkok! Including the largest Toys R Us my kids have ever seen! We were there for over an hour :)
One morning while I was doing medical stuff Matt took the kids to Lumpini Park to look for monitor lizards. They had a blast.
and swings! what a treat!
and a tuk tuk ride, of course.
On this day Julianna provided one of my favorite quotes of the entire trip. I asked her how they got to/from the park and she said, "Well we walked there but it was so hot we decided to take a taxi back to the hotel".
"How far was the walk?" I asked.
"Oh, I'd say it was a good stretch of the legs."
(Can you tell Matt is still reading Tolkien to the kids? To me this sounds just like Hobbit talk!)
The next day we slept late and unpacked and I tried to wrap my mind around starting back to home school, local school, cooking, cleaning, laundry, the works.
The kids pulled out their currency collections to sort - and add a new one. Isaac's good buddy from our beach stop was an American living in Takijistan. They traded some cash :).
Now we are day 3 back in country and it's a big one - Matt's birthday! woohoo! Time to celebrate!
2 comments:
We saw a lot of monitor lizards in Lumpini when we were there in May 2015 - also lots of blooming plants.
Bangkok is a marvel a a fine place to visit. And I would really like some street food about now.
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Granddaddy
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