Bangkok Week 544 November 29, 2018 Christmas 2018 is officially here! Happy Holidays! View fullsize Celebrating Friday with quality veg. chinese food. (General Gao's Chicken-equivalent?) View fullsize Back at our favorite Bangkok Shangri-La for a complementary Saturday lunch (on a boat!) View fullsize Patiently waiting for lunch. View fullsize The just-opened Icon Siam that everyone's been talking about. View fullsize Face-on shot. Apparently it features 30+m tall panes of glass -- the longest pillar-less glass façade in the world. View fullsize More junk floating in the river! (It's a museum.) View fullsize In Thailand, this is Air France's low cost carrier. Not Joon! View fullsize Rajini School. View fullsize Wat Arun. (It was a struggle to get 2 giant heads and the temple into the photo at once.) View fullsize More Wat Arun. View fullsize Rama 8 Bridge. View fullsize This is the first time I realized it's not symmetrical! View fullsize Same bridge, more dramatic lighting. View fullsize This time, under the Rama 8 Bridge. View fullsize A special push-boat, with a special tensile rope. View fullsize Back in the hotel lobby: stapling the (real) gingerbread roof tiles on. View fullsize Shadows in the Krung Thep wing. View fullsize Where all the song taew start. View fullsize It's tree time! View fullsize This is never going back so compactly! View fullsize These needles don't hurt! ::Cough cough:: View fullsize Concentrating hard. View fullsize Assembled! View fullsize And the wreath, too! View fullsize Short diversion to EmQuartier, to get more lights and soak up the season. View fullsize Tickle tickle. View fullsize The Centerpiece. View fullsize Someone painted the Coca Cola bear. View fullsize These look like cutesy ornaments... but they're as heavy as bowling balls! Death trap. View fullsize Okay! Lights on, ornaments on. It's holiday time! View fullsize Last step: getting the balcony ready. View fullsize Almost as bright as the moon. View fullsize We found a nice tacky star! View fullsize The over-crowded Danish Christmas Bazaar. View fullsize Thought I found a train mag in the TG lounge. View fullsize But alas... it's only a schedule. View fullsize A giant sandbox at Gate E3. Wait, no. Continuous replacement of asphalt with concrete continues at Suvarnabhumi. View fullsize Amex forgot to order my veg meal... but I'm the one who benefited! Biz class breakfast! View fullsize NAIA T1 gets innovative with sourcing the power for its tree lights. View fullsize Dramatic lighting over the Pasig River. View fullsize These elevator warnings are reassuring..!
