I'M HOME!!
We had a fabulous time in Thailand, I recommend it highly!! Go, go, go!
I have heaps of photos, but they aren't uploading here.. so if you like go to my facebook page and have a squiz. If you are interested that is, no pressure from me! I am just putting some more up now..
Settling back into home life, but truly had some fantastic experiences with our friends and our kids.
Not alot to say really, the kids are tired and a bit out of whack, me too! But surprisingly unpacked most of our gear within 2 hours of being home and that includes washing on the line...
Back into school, P&F meetings and wondering about what to cook for tea!!! BORING!!
Some of our highlights were,
Swimming nearly everyday of our trip!
Elephant ride, although in two minds, as they are loved and you can see that but they are chained up, but a fabulous experience nonetheless... Our guide for the ride kept calling his elephant 'sexy elephant' Very funny.
Trip to James Bond Island, which was ok, lots and lots of tourists, too many!! It was funny on there, Lexi was sitting on the ground, along comes a Japanese couple, plonk their baby next to her and start snapping away on their camera!! Funny indeed, he was a pretty cute little boy!! I was fascinated more though with the little fishing town type place built in the water a little while further on
where we ate lunch. Felt very weird!!! Had 'sea legs' while back on solid buildings, was really a strange sensation.
The 'adults only' night out for birthday celebrations... We got babysitters in the hotel. The boys found a great bar, very friendly and we settled in there for the evening. Along comes all types of people wanting to see things, from the older Grandmother types with their wares strapped and hanging off every part of their bodies, to the man from the tailors across the road coming over to see what we were up to, to the man with the big lizard for you to hold or put on your head for a photo with your own camera, 100bht thankyou!! Also little kids coming in selling flower necklaces and little things like that. My friend got duped big time, a little boy got her to buy his 'last' 4 flower necklaces, so he could go home, then came back 5 minutes later with a heap more to sell! The same little boy was even whipping Brenton with his little bamboo cane to get him to buy something... They try it all on you. And most of this was after 10 o'clock at night. I always got sucked in, I thought the sooner the flower necklaces were sold, the sooner they could go home to bed! It is an open air bar, and it rained while we were there, so we all huddled under the part that was covered... No bacardi breezers so one of the bar girls takes off and got us some to drink!! So nice... Bit seedy the next day but worth it.. funny night, thanks JOY!!!
THE FOOD!!!
I was warned that we might all have funny tummies, but not at all really... Mia did one night and we worked out that was because she had eaten a whole heap of dried apricots in glee after I bought them home from the supermarket. The street food is the absolute best, I was fascinated with the carts that people pushed/drove around.
Night Markets
Went to one in Phuket twice, loved it so much, shirts for between $3-$6 Australian. And more yummy food there. Gorgeous Fish cakes, and rice balls. I have a couple of new skirts, heaps of tops, and some gorgeous little lamps, I would have bought so much more if I could have. We had so much luggage as it was.
Chinatown in Bangkok
In Bangkok we had another Adults night, where we got the kids babysat in the hotel and went to Chinatown for a suckling pig in a Chinese restaurant!! What an experience, the little piggy comes out, and you eat the skin in little pancakes with spring onion and some delish soy type sauce... Then the pig goes out the back to be chopped up and cooked, we chose to have it fried... We also had some soup for starters which was out of this world, and lots of rice and vegetables, all so delicious! Then we found a little desert place and had the most yummy icecream type desert but it was all fluffy, with frozen fruit. Man o man!!
Grand Palace
We also went to the Grand Palace in Bangkok... So astoundingly gorgeous, lots of detail and obviously a special place for the Thais. You have to dress appropriately so I was worried about what to wear but I needn't have bothered, you can just hire what you need there! Remember that just in case you go, ok? lol! It actually would have helped to know it as we wouldn't have worn clothes that the weather was way too hot..
The Thai people themselves.
All of our kids couldn't have been more adored, and doted over. Lexi in particular was always being touched and talked to. It really is a wonderful trait of the Thais. And as it is pretty quiet at the moment, the staff at the hotels had more time to get to know us, which was lovely...
That's enough for now, I will upload photos with stories about them, but for now, I miss Thailand, but I'm glad to be home, but I am soooooooooooo happy that we went. We nearly didn't because of the troubles, but it turned out to be the trip of our life so far!!!
Thanks for visiting if you do.
xxx
