Singing Valentine

Hope you had a love-ly valentines day. We started the day out by finishing a book (Physik) we have been reading together for about the past two years. That shows how often we read together. Anywho, we finished the book, ran some errands, went to the Draper Temple open house,(its beautiful), and then we went out dancing and danced the night away. Lets see, the correct answers to the above true or false statements would be true, true, true, extremely false!

For your valentine entertainment we have prepared a short video, rated VS for very scary. To fully appreciate this video you must be lying on your side. Remember, we really do love you, but hey, sometimes love is painful. If you try to contact me for autographs Ill probably be out of town. Im going to go audition for American Idol. Happy Valentines Day!

Nana's Happy Brrrrrthday Extravaganza

Once again we gathered for Nana's annual brrrrthday party. It was a little different this year - no snow, just rain. A lot of the hot dog roasting was done holding umbrellas. It really wasn't very cold, just wet. We ate under the patio and off and on between rainfall, sat around the fire. We sang happy birthday and the wind blew out the candles. No problem getting all 29 of those candles blown out at once! Happy birthday dear Nana, cha-cha-cha, Happy Birthday to you!

One For Me

I,ve made a few of these for others but never seem to get mine done. So, I sat myself down to the machine, determined to sew mine together. Ta-da! I had a fun day sewing. No longer will I be wearing the navy blue, flour covered, grease splattered Central Bank apron . I'll be looking good in my brand new 'vintage style" apron. The question is, I may look cute but do you think my cooking will get any better? Bon-appetite!

The first picture is a Christmas tree. Yep, it has been commercialized in even a predominantly non-Christian country. The big mall where the tree sits in front, is a very large place. Lot's of shoes but no boots, Jen. The square in front of this mall is kind of like Times Square when it comes to New Years Rockin' Eve.

The next picture is at a restaurant which has Thai and Vietnam food. The selection on the table is all Vietnamese. It was good. The couple at the table is Rungrat [the finance person for Agel Thailand] and her husband, who spent the evening with me.

The last picture is another shrine much the same as described before.

Okay, I wasn't supposed to get a picture of Ronald. But this Ronald is out front of the McDonald's across from the hotel. The unique thing about him is what he has done with his hands. It is a common, very common greeting for people to greet each other with their hands in a prayer and bring their hands to their nose and back down and say solaki, a hello or welcome greeting.

The next picture up is a shrine on a street corner. Worshipper's would buy flowers and incense and bring them to this shrine and pray. The flowers and incense can be purchased from a lot of vendors before they get into the shrine area. There were even birds there for purchase. I didn't ask about them. They light the incense and place it in some pot of sand and pile the flowers at one of the platforms. Then they knell and pray in front of everyone.

The top picture is of a whole square block of shops, all of them about that close. There were so many of them. Clothes, watches, souveniers, trinkets, and more and more of the same. It reminded me of Tijuana. It didn't take long to everything offered there but I only saw a few of the shops.

It was fun to have Flat Stan with me taking a few pictures.

Bangkok 2

Here's a few more pictures. The one I thought was kind of funny was the towel at the side [both sides but I only pictured one] of the bed and some slippers which were big enough for my big toe.

Bangkok, Thailand

Well, I made it to Thailand. I originally thought it was a 14 hour flight. It was 18 hours. Arrived here at 6:30 am on Monday [3:30 pm on Sunday your time]. Here's a couple of pictures I've been able to shoot quickly [more to come, I hope].

Hallway from the inside of the room.

Had to get some bathroom shots. It's pretty nice compared to some places I've been.
The bed looks pretty comfy, won't get to try it until this evening. Some more coming.