Jim Thompon's House

17.2.07

Jim Thompson's House

• Jim Thompson was a famous silk trader in Thai land, who suddenly went missing.

in 1967 (please correct me if I've got this date incorrect).

• The pot has a beautiful big gold fish in which loves to be tickled, and we didn't need to give the girls much more opportunity to put their hands in.
• Both girls bought themselves a raw silk elephant, as a keepsake. Maybe you'll get to see them one day?!!

The Grand Palace or Golden Palace

17.2.07

The Golden temple is an amazing place, something not to be missed. But a little hard work with children trying to acclimatize.

The magnificent displays - creativity are all some what over whelming.

What do you think of the magnificent toporied trees?

Another plus for Bangkok

What we saw

16.2.07

From Rags - Riches, in only a matter of meters up the canal ?!!

Boat trip

16.2.07

Canal Boat

• Well 1st is the most important meal of the day - Breakfast. Go on look past Gary have a look at our outlook.
• This trip took about 2 hours, and was a really eye opener.
• wish we had more time and could have gone on it several times.
• The girls bought from a river market seller a musical frog.

Shangri La Hotel

15.2.07

We arrived at the Shangri la Hotel (5*)

www.shangrila.com

We settled very quickly into our room and went off to dinner in the Chang Palace ( a Chinese restaurant in the Hotel).

Have a look at the website it gives an idea of where and what we we're viewing during our stay

14th February 2007

Our Flight to Bangkok - was delayed.

This gave us time to recover from the huge wrench away from parents and grandparents at airport.

Chantelle -Had a hypo, and we had to calm her down quite a lot, and help her breath.

But Hey Ho only had 1 hour delay - Bangok here we come..............

Six days to go - we have snow

Can you believe it, we had a flutter of snow just over a week ago, and we were excited - thinking this would be the last of the UK snow we'd ever see.

So how really exciting, ovenight it snowed so much the girls played outside most of the day -Happily.

The downside I never got to say "Farewell" to Alison & Zoe (who were due to visit today). But Ali or Son as I call you, you know I'll hold you in my heart as always.

Just like to say a Big thank you to

Susan, Martin and Millie

for allowing us to share their home.