Bangkok Week 46 May 14, 2009 A rather fruity long-weekend in Trad and Chantaburi. View fullsize Papayas grow on a tree at the local Wat. View fullsize A shrimp farm in Chantaburi... View fullsize ...owned by Sittha's dad's brother. (See the resemblance?) View fullsize A brand-new bridge built in Chantaburi linking two sides of a river outlet. View fullsize A view from the new bridge. View fullsize Stopping in the middle of the bridge to take photos. View fullsize Posing with the bridge's name plaque. Marouy puts his best face forward. View fullsize Lunch at a noodle place in Chantaburi. View fullsize The home of a different set of relatives. Here, sorting Mangosteens grown on their farm. View fullsize Looking through the photos from the cousin's wedding in March. View fullsize Many durian fruits, high up in a tree. View fullsize And sugar cane. View fullsize These are "long-gong" (perhaps Langsart in English?) growing on a tree. Not to be confused with Longan. View fullsize Marouy is eager to explore the fruit trees. View fullsize Very young mangosteens still attached to the tree. View fullsize Ow! A prickly durian! View fullsize A durian hanging in front of a huge rambutan tree. View fullsize A close-up of a bunch of rambutan in the tree. View fullsize Marouy, curious-as-ever to explore the fruit. View fullsize A close-up of the "long-gong" (langsart?). View fullsize Carrying in the hardware to cut down some fruit! View fullsize First, getting the low ones. View fullsize A ripe mangosteen from a nearby tree. View fullsize Its fleshy interior. View fullsize Now, cutting the harder-to-reach rambutans. View fullsize Marouy wonders why his range has suddenly gotten so short. View fullsize Dad and a cousin try to feed Marouy rambutan. He's not too interested. View fullsize Still hackin' away up in the rambutan tree. View fullsize Some of the goods. View fullsize A large cluster of stinkers. View fullsize Enjoying the fruits of our labor, on the spot. View fullsize Mmm. Juicy and sweaty. View fullsize Our haul. All coming back to Trad! View fullsize A view of a portion of the farm property. View fullsize Bagging up the fruit to take back to Trad. View fullsize All the fruit we had ended up with back at the house: mangosteens, rambutans and "long-gongs"! View fullsize The fruit back in Trad isn't faring so well. These jackfruit have cracked open and started to go bad. View fullsize Poor, stinky Marouy gets a bath. View fullsize "Mmm. But this does feel a little nice." View fullsize Enjoying it as much as possible. View fullsize Looking through photos from Chiang Mai. View fullsize A bush in bloom near the store. View fullsize A huge bunch of orchids in bloom, too. View fullsize Marouy eyes the rambutans, having already forgotten that he doesn't care for them. View fullsize Why hello, handsome. View fullsize Enjoying a home-made pink noodle dish. View fullsize Chillaxin' at the store... it was a slow afternoon. View fullsize Eating some... rather chewy corn grown across the street. View fullsize More flowers in bloom in front of the store. View fullsize Marouy enjoys the corn leftovers. View fullsize Eating alone wasn't good enough for Marouy. View fullsize "Dance with me, bro!" View fullsize Looking pretty. View fullsize Marouy shows off his flying skillz. View fullsize Then it turns into a game of tug-of-war. View fullsize Then we removed the human element altogether. View fullsize Mmm, fresh, home-made and 100% vegetarian! View fullsize Visiting a "haunted tree" that was found buried nearby, and has been turned into a shrine. View fullsize Parts of the haunted tree, permanently on display. View fullsize Marouy cools off, but still eyes the fishy water. View fullsize A huge but airy cracker snack. View fullsize Sneaking up on the pup, who's about to go for a dip in the pond. View fullsize "LA LA LA! Swim swim swim!" View fullsize Re-energized after his dip, and playing with a dead palm leaf. View fullsize "Check it out! Isn't this leaf just awesome?" View fullsize Pretty boy and his flowers. View fullsize Still dancin' and prancin' about. View fullsize Stuck at the store during a downpour. View fullsize Doesn't this hurt his neck? View fullsize It's always nice getting attention from mom. View fullsize The two brothers spend the rainy afternoon sleeping in the store. View fullsize After bringing kilos and kilos of rambutan back to Bangkok, we finish the last guy on Thursday morning. View fullsize And Thursday night, we have a surprise visitor at our humble home!
