Bangkok Week 495 December 20, 2017 Happy holidays and see you soon! View fullsize Picking up where we left off in Manila... you can actually find tasteful Christmas decorations here. I find this tree quite nice! View fullsize Egads! It's a Tims in Southeast Asia! (Apparently, the first one opened in Manila this past February.) View fullsize Look like the original? View fullsize Meanwhile in Ekamai: the tiles are going up in the bathroom. View fullsize They are tiling behind the counters, so that it's more flexible if we decide to change the built-in furniture in the future. View fullsize The new wall between the living room and driveway is going up as well. View fullsize Spotted in Trat: too many mirrors for a single truck. View fullsize Also - bargoons on pineapples! View fullsize Even Trat has become commercial for Christmas! View fullsize Mistook this guy for a tamarind! View fullsize All our loot from trimming the tamarind tree. View fullsize Namtan knows who's the keeper of the food. View fullsize Namtan was mid-attack when I found his sweet spot. He melted instantaneously. View fullsize Another home-cooked feast. Lucky us! View fullsize A lazy Sunday morning for Namwan. View fullsize Maruay is up and about. Morning is the only time to be energetic. View fullsize Maruay in the wild. (Actually, he's eating a crab someone had thrown out.) View fullsize What the heck is that!?! View fullsize The largest bees nest in town!!! View fullsize One of the new durian trees in the back yard. View fullsize And the ants have made a nest out of another tree's leaves. View fullsize Lazy Saturday morning. View fullsize Putting up some festive signage at the store. View fullsize One person's celebrating the new year, while the others do the chores in the background. View fullsize Top, modeling his birthday present. View fullsize Posing for the camera. View fullsize Looking goofy! View fullsize I was walking around for a long time with an extra friend on my shoulder. View fullsize Visiting the relatives in Chantaburi. View fullsize Checking out the fishing pier right behind the grandma's house. View fullsize A giant haul of crabs had just come in - so it's all-hands-on-deck to remove them from the nets. View fullsize It's such a labor-intensive process. They use a kind of crochet hook to pick the net off the crab. View fullsize Look how blue the poor guy is. View fullsize Post-lunch photo with the fam. (In height-order?) View fullsize And a quick trip to the shrimp farm, but no one was home. View fullsize Check out this "natural" bearing! View fullsize Stopping at a really nice nursery on the way back to Trat. View fullsize These are all different types of Durian trees! View fullsize YOU'RE BACK!! View fullsize Just putting the finishing touches on the car. Shine, shine. View fullsize Minor house renovations: replacing the tarps. View fullsize Steaming the dozen crabs we were given in Chantaburi. View fullsize Like brother, like brother. View fullsize What a treat! A chilly morning in Trat!! View fullsize This chilly morning begs some thick blankets and a soft pillow. View fullsize Let's play a game. Dog, or sack of potatoes? View fullsize In a sudden burst of energy (surely brought on by the winter air), Maruay takes interest in a whisky box. View fullsize What's that? View fullsize Big hug for big brother. View fullsize Not ready to get up yet! View fullsize Just saying hello. View fullsize Where's the bus? View fullsize Namwan looking pretty again. View fullsize She knows how to model for the camera. View fullsize Dad's peeling crab for breakfast... and Maruay couldn't stand any closer. View fullsize Looking at photos of the house. View fullsize Back to bed for the big boy. View fullsize Back in Bangkok for a farewell dinner for K. Adil. View fullsize And ice cream at a hip new ice cream joint in Ari. View fullsize Apparently I looked like a pineapple. What do you think? View fullsize The cool weather continues in Bangkok! What a treat! View fullsize Last house update for a few weeks! View fullsize The master bathroom tiling is almost done. View fullsize Just doing the floors now. View fullsize I guess they have yet to close the ceiling, too. View fullsize And they've made good progress on the second bathroom, as well. View fullsize It looks tight, but it shouldn't feel *quite* so tight when done! View fullsize Right up to the roof! View fullsize They've put an additional layer of brick along the right wall, to buffer us from the neighbors (and their damp wall). View fullsize And the new wall next to the driveway is complete as well. (When construction is completed, the view out that small window will not be obstructed by bricks.) View fullsize I hadn't realized we'd designed for this innovative veggie hanger, too! View fullsize A very modern queue card system at Thanachart. View fullsize Mr. Bump plays a central role in Terminal 21's Christmas celebration this year. View fullsize Here he is in Paris! View fullsize Greetings from the TG lounge, where we enjoy our free ice creams (thanks Citibank) and wait to board our A350. See you soon!
