Bangkok Week 29 January 17, 2009 Kids' Day and a swanky new piece of furniture star in this week's installment. View fullsize Apparently still suffering from a bit of jet lag. View fullsize Naomi Hair Solution. View fullsize Would you trust your hair to Naomi? View fullsize Dinner at a "jungle" style restaurant. View fullsize How junglesque! View fullsize Apparently the types of dishes a "jungle" restaurant offers are different than normal... but I didn't notice! View fullsize Most malls' Christmas decorations are still up! View fullsize Excitedly trying out the new milk frother, courtesy of Mum. View fullsize Stiff peaks. View fullsize Got Milk! View fullsize Carefully trying to spot the differences. View fullsize A new building going up (or, sideways) downtown. Is the Coke bottle shape a coincidence? View fullsize Modeling those sunglasses... again. View fullsize The new flip flops from Payless Toronto wait to ride the skytrain. View fullsize Downtown is hopping by 10am on a Saturday. View fullsize Crowds pour out of the skytrain at its terminal station. View fullsize It's Kids Day: this is one sea of red kids out to celebrate. View fullsize Stores and organizations throughout the city were putting on special events for kids. View fullsize Lunch break at the mall before ... View fullsize ... taking our lives into our hands and trying to ride a tuk tuk back to the apartment with a huge bookshelf taking up 3/4 of the space! View fullsize Note the large bus barreling down on us from behind. View fullsize The box was so long and heavy I was convinced the tuk tuk would flip over backwards. View fullsize Opening the box to see if we actually brought home the right product. View fullsize Everyone's familiar with the fun of assembling IKEA(esque) furniture! View fullsize Too tired to go on. View fullsize Ta Daa! View fullsize The finished product! View fullsize The next day, some Kids Day celebrations were continuing... View fullsize ... although for some, it was more like Kids' torture. View fullsize Trying out the new Super Cape (TM). View fullsize Chocolates from Grandma (and a slightly shorter 'doo). View fullsize Modeling the new reading lamp (yup, we went on a spending spree). View fullsize Small mystery fruits from the "Man who sells vegetables" -- an organic fruit & veggie seller in a skytrain station. View fullsize The Mess that is our neighbours' back yard now. We have no idea what's being built. View fullsize The newest addition to our humble abode. View fullsize A breeze-lovin' orchid, so we're told.
