Bangkok Week 72 November 12, 2009 A hot hot hot weekend in Trad and Chantaburi. Whatever happened to that winter, anyway? View fullsize Another weekend at home with the 'rents and the bros. View fullsize Never a dull table. Sweet-and-sour stir fry for breakfast... among others! View fullsize The special vegetarian salty-spicy-sour sauce. View fullsize Gobbled down already! View fullsize Marouy offers to eat my mail. View fullsize Mini apple-like fruits dry in the sun. View fullsize Shaking the daylight out of his coconut. View fullsize The two bros lounge inside to avoid the sun. View fullsize Going through old clothes to donate, while Mr. Lazybones watches in the background. View fullsize Someone finds the winter jacket from his youth! View fullsize Some chilies grow in the back yard. I didn't know one plant could yield both red and green ones. View fullsize Surprise! There's a new banana plantation behind the house, too! View fullsize The closet I'll ever get to plucking a coconut right off the tree. View fullsize A flowering cactus -- not quite like Granny's Christmas cactus though. View fullsize Kit Kat! The first western chocolate sold at The Store! View fullsize What's up? View fullsize Marouy comes over to watch the men play with the new GPS. Can you teach a dog new technologies? View fullsize Trying out the camera's "portrait" mode. Not a bad result! View fullsize Aha! Finally, the new car's been properly branded. View fullsize Enjoying some refreshing sugar cane from the market... couldn't even wait to get home. View fullsize Would you like a rice cooker? How about a dozen? View fullsize Examining the new Suki pot! View fullsize Mr. Fatso sits around without even offering to help stock the shelves. View fullsize Blooms' ahoy! View fullsize "What's in that little silver box you always carry, anyway?" View fullsize A real life Transformer drives down the road. View fullsize Ah, Grandma's Hair dessert. Haven't had it in ages! View fullsize Hey, ma. You gonna eat that sugar cane? View fullsize All the makins for a grand suki feast! View fullsize Two kinds of tofu: round and square! (I mean, egg and soy.) View fullsize Enjoying the fruits of the new pot's labour. View fullsize Family portrait around the newest addition to the kitchen. View fullsize The next morning, he's the first one up for breakfast. View fullsize Some chromosome donuts to start the day. View fullsize Real breakfast: lots of salty dishes, to accompany the rice porridge. View fullsize About to depart on a trip to visit relatives in the neighbouring province. Someone knows he's being left behind! View fullsize Stopping at the market to buy food to bring with us. Needless to say, we didn't buy these pigs' sacrifices. View fullsize Hungry after an early breakfast, so a donut break on the road. Don't drop crumbs on the new seats! View fullsize Another, more classic street snack: deep-fried taro and banana slices. Mmmmmm. View fullsize This lady opened her store for the day, and then went to sleep. Odd indeed. View fullsize Visiting the uncle who runs a shrimp farm. View fullsize Staring at... not a whole lot. View fullsize Ooh, look at all the dust in the phone! View fullsize The mountainous backdrop behind the farm. View fullsize Inspecting some flopping fish. Eew. View fullsize The scenic, sunny countryside. View fullsize Cooling off with a wormy dessert. View fullsize Can I help you repair that flashlight, bro? Or can I eat something? View fullsize Yowzers! Look at all the dishes! (For everything you see here, we took an equal amount back to Bangkok.)
