It doesn't get much better than this!
Friday, October 12, 2007
A most Beautiful Day
The wedding of my brother Kanyun to the wonderful Kelly, in Italy. Some of my favorite highlights....
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Sunday, October 7, 2007
Elephants in the city
Sometimes I am a sucker for animal tricks and here is a perfect example. At night in Bangkok, there are baby to large-size elephants that roam the streets with a handler. There are never large groups of elephants on the streets, but rather one elephant here, another there. For a dollar, you can feed the elephant baby cucumbers, baby bananas or sugarcane and it is fantastic.
The elephants trunk comes right up to you and grabs the food. They have a very strong trunk, it is truly impressive. When you are done with your food bag, the elephant grabs the food bag from you and gives it to its handler. The elephants also do fun tricks like play the harmonica.
The best part of the nighttime Bangkok elephant experience is that they have a traffic reflector on their tail so that cars can see them when they are in the street. Andrew and I spent the better part of our evening on Saturday and Sunday following the elephants around town and spending lots of money on elephant food. We took some pictures which we will try to post when we can download them.
Elephants are now my #2 favorite animal, following cool cats #1
The elephants trunk comes right up to you and grabs the food. They have a very strong trunk, it is truly impressive. When you are done with your food bag, the elephant grabs the food bag from you and gives it to its handler. The elephants also do fun tricks like play the harmonica.
The best part of the nighttime Bangkok elephant experience is that they have a traffic reflector on their tail so that cars can see them when they are in the street. Andrew and I spent the better part of our evening on Saturday and Sunday following the elephants around town and spending lots of money on elephant food. We took some pictures which we will try to post when we can download them.
Elephants are now my #2 favorite animal, following cool cats #1
Saturday, October 6, 2007
One night in Bangkok makes the heart grow fonder
Its a lovely Saturday afternoon and Andrew and I are in the westernized city of Bangkok for the weekend before heading off to Italy monday night for my brother Kanyun's wedding. We are very excited!!!! Good food, good friends and good family are coming our way.
Some of the things we are looking forward to in Bangkok include eating Mexican food, really good sushi, pretzels, staying out past curfew, fast internet speed, smooth roads, clean streets, and a whole myriad of other western-like experiences.
We are also safe and well after the events of last week and have been, we just couldn't communicate so with no internet access. More hopefully to come in the future depending on internet access since blogspot has been banned in Myanmar and will be very hard to access once the internet is back up. We hope to keep adding to it but it may be much more sporadic. Take care!
Some of the things we are looking forward to in Bangkok include eating Mexican food, really good sushi, pretzels, staying out past curfew, fast internet speed, smooth roads, clean streets, and a whole myriad of other western-like experiences.
We are also safe and well after the events of last week and have been, we just couldn't communicate so with no internet access. More hopefully to come in the future depending on internet access since blogspot has been banned in Myanmar and will be very hard to access once the internet is back up. We hope to keep adding to it but it may be much more sporadic. Take care!
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