Bangkok Week 511 April 12, 2018 Our guests have arrived! View fullsize This is the sign that our guests have arrived! View fullsize Belated - but timely - birthday present: a map of Laos. View fullsize First lunch: at the new "community mall" in Ari. View fullsize Visiting The House. It's changed a lot since last year! View fullsize How many people can we fit into the shower? View fullsize Keeping alive with some Swensen's ice cream. View fullsize No mango and sticky rice ice cream this visit. View fullsize We have a mailbox! View fullsize The delivery we've been waiting for. View fullsize Miniso fashion! View fullsize Posing on the walkway above Siam Square- which is also new since last year. View fullsize Happy birthday, Jasmine!! View fullsize And happy birthday, Naomi! (The cake was a complete surprise.) View fullsize Modeling the Maplewood hat. View fullsize Visiting Warehouse30 - except we're too early for the shops. So, cafe it is. View fullsize Checking out the neighborhood. View fullsize A little bit of everything -- including antiques -- for sale here. View fullsize Waiting for the show to start. View fullsize Interesting architecture on the building next door. View fullsize Selfie with the local camel. View fullsize Mural and relief sculpture on the wall of the Embassy of Portugal. View fullsize A Chinese neighborhood across the river. View fullsize Next stop: Lhong 1919. View fullsize With a great view, Lhong is a reclaimed a group of old warehouses and a Chinese shrine. View fullsize The site has been tastefully redeveloped. View fullsize Lotus in action. View fullsize Lunch at one of the Thai restaurants on the premise. View fullsize Artists painstakingly restore some of the original wall paintings. View fullsize A finished panel. View fullsize Work-in-progress. View fullsize Using an arm rest to steady his hand. View fullsize Nice views from the second floor. View fullsize Equally scenic ground floor. View fullsize Last stop for the day: the newly renovated Wat Arun! View fullsize We were indeed all there. View fullsize All new plates, for an all-new look. View fullsize Like two peas in a pod. View fullsize Nice and steep - but off limits to the public. View fullsize It almost looks like we had the place to ourselves! View fullsize Heading back to the right side of town, after a long day on the road. View fullsize Until next time, Wat Arun! View fullsize Mum's annual birthday dinner at Charcoal. View fullsize The last of the windows have arrived! We can move in now! View fullsize The small guest-bedroom windows into the hallway. View fullsize The prison bars -- I mean window -- at the back of the guest room. View fullsize Our beautiful new bedroom windows. View fullsize And the bathroom windows, too. View fullsize One last lunch before heading off to the airport. View fullsize Say this name aloud. And then wonder. View fullsize We took a very indirect approach to Manila. View fullsize This added 30 minutes -- i.e. 20% -- to our flight time! View fullsize Leaving Manila NAIA on Thursday night - I had an uninvited friend -- at Starbucks!
