Our last night in Ong Sit village started with dinner at the Rees family. I grew up with Wendy and we have known each other since we were about 5 or 6. It is nice to spend time with someone who you don't have to start at the beginning with. Everytime we meet we pick up the threads of our friendship and weave a little more into the pattern. She now has a husband Richard and four gorgeous children, who love playing with our children.
When we had finished dinner the rest of the Ong Sit team came round including my parents and another family called the Betts (who have 6 children...3 are back in America) We had some gorgeous homemade ice-cream...strawberry and chocolate and peanut butter chunk flavours.
While the adults talked the children played hide and seek in the dark downstairs under the house. We had to drag them away at about 9pm, not because the kids were tired but granny (my mum) was flagging! It was a really nice end to the two weeks we have spent in the village.
We were up and out in good time Saturday morning as we had to get to Bangkok by mid afternoon. I took the opportunity for a picture with my parents as I don't know the last time I had one.
While we were on the ferry, my mum was talking to a lady selling "snacks" ....pickled fish, fish balls on sticks, sausages (hotdog style) boiled eggs and various dried seafood....none of which I really could face that early in the morning if at all. We could smell something funny but could not work out what it was. As we were walking back to where everyone else was sitting we saw the origin of the smell. Someone was sray painting the engine of the ferry! They like it to look nice and shiney!
We arrived in time to get a bus to Bangkok, unfortunatley it was not the nice one with a toilet but it was ok. We had bought the tickets as soon as we arrived in town and then gone and got something to eat. When we arrived we duelywent to the toilet before we got on only to find that although we had tickets with seat numbers that was not the "rules"...it was a free for all and everyone spreads out and does not like shifting. We were split up over the whole bus. the kids were really good about it and we soon discovered how it works....when someone gets off you quickly move seats to one closer together. By the end we had two groups of seats together. It was a fun little game! We got to Bangkok in good time and decided to go back to the Paragon Shopping Center to see if we could go and watch a movie.
View of Bangkok from the lift in Paragon
Center piece of mirroed waterfalls in front entrance of Paragon
Unfortunately when we got tho the cinema there was nothing on which was suitable to watch for our age children. So we gave the children the money we would have spent on the cinema and we went shopping.
Back to Pizza Company for dinner
Famous Bangkok traffic....at about 9 pm it was still busy.. for us it was on the Sky train and underground and back to bed as we had a very early start the next day!
4 comments:
sounds like you're REALLY missing life in Yateley, wot
:)
that's a lovely shot of Jamie at Pizza company :)
So lovely to see a picture of you with your Mum and Dad - I love to put names to faces. Glad you had a good last evening catching up with old friends.
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