Tarntawan Place Hotel Bangkok

... were taking early in the evening and not even at "ground zero", Khao San Road. Check back on this entry, I will try to get some more pix tonight, I didn't pack my camera out when I was out on "tour". I can't get into it here, as this is a PG-rated blog so I will let the pictures do the talking, so use your imagination - let's just say I am a bit bleary but quite happy this morning.. LOL <br>

... the accomodations. Thank goodness for Expedia - I pre-paid for the room awhile back and it ended uo being less expensive that most hotels in DC. Clearly, the dollar goes far in Thailand!<br><br>Tomorrow morning I'll wake up early and head back to the airport to catch my flight to Khon Kaen. I'll post to the blog tomorrow night to update everyone. Till then, enjoy the pics of Lebua! :)

... talking **** about Hollyoaks and making me crack up with stories about how when she gets drunk she gets angry - I never knew!<br><br>Pirates Party, ok pretty small, lots of Beyonce dancing, a bucket or 2, Beany passed out pretty quickly, getting a lift there in the quad.<br><br>Card Club &amp; singin to acoustic guitar guy - Zombie &amp; Hotel California.<br><br>Can't really remember what happened with islands, think I left the wedding party on Koh Phangan ...

... dos and donts and itinerary checking, five of us decided to go for dinner.<br>Then it rained... lightening flashes like paparazzi flashes... rumbles ever present and the streets began to flood. Sod it... we still walked the couple of streets to Khao San road. Perhaps 'waded' is more apt... flood water upto the knees and god-knows-what brushing past my legs within the blackened street water. An Irish Bar with live music became our mecca - a surreal ending in a surreal city.

... and we really felt like royalty. This bar too was outside and had a dome at the one end of it similar to the CCU atheneum. Next to the dome was a lit staircase that led to the outside bar. This bar was raised up over the glass walls of the hotel so when you were sitting at it it seemed like you were floating above the city. It really was breathtaking and we could really see just how huge the city is. Anyways the bar was pretty packed so we only stayed ...

Suvanna the represenative from Original Volunteers met us at the airport, I was expecting a young English girl but she turned out to be a mature bubbly and vivacious Thai lady. We were taken to her home and introduced to her husband Dennis, who is head of English at the local xcollege, he chatted to us for some time and put us at ease and gave us background information. We were then sent shopping with the Thai housekeeper as we needed to get some ...

... br><br>My guest house is next to the most humongous shopping centre you have ever seen! Covering six floors and selling just about anything you could want. Got my Thai sim phone card and resisted the urge to buy clothes. Went for a massage (back killing me from sleeping at Dubai airport on a bench) &#8211; the most fantastic massage I&#8217;ve ever had. Went into small parlour and shown into a curtained area with a ...

... a sleeping variety? It's easy to take your pick. As I eventually found out, although not today, it's usually fatal for any westerner to walk the streets of the city as I'll explain later.<br>What is it about any major Asian city: hot, congested, polluted; car fumes filling-in the hot city air; one melting pot indeed, as I made my way past the frenetically crowded China Town and paced eagerly to the very end of the main street hoping to pay a once-more visit to the ...

... probably growing in the right place. One final early scan on 20th December, 3 days before our trip confirmed it - a 6 week old 'beating blob' all fine growing as it should be coming on our once in a lifetime trip around the world with us. It was our miracle baby, the egg was released from the left ovary, the side where my tube was removed. I still don't know until this day how they managed to find their way, but I'm so glad they did.<br><br>ADVICE: The doctor stopped me ...

... way out.<br><br>We spent a week in Bangkok. Things needed sorting out and I spent a considerable amount of time developing photographs and scanning them into a computer for inclusion in the website. This took an inordinate amount of time and the end result was. We also had to get visas for Laos - which took three days. I bought books on the country and crammed my brain for several days. Bangkok, whilst no doubt an interesting city, was not a focus for us. We were eager to ...