Hello Bangkok

Everyone's feeling better and we were ready for venturing out. We headed off to an International Day celebration at Magic Years Kindergarten. The kids were a bit younger than ours, but it was still fun. The girls enjoyed painting an elephant at the Thailand booth, stringing beads at the Americas booth, making a star at the Israel booth, and having their hands painted with henna at the India booth. There was also all sorts of ethnic foods, which of course was Nadim's favourite part!

It was extremely hot today. We had planned to go downtown to see the Grand Palace and some temples, but we spent a little more time than intended at the school celebration and with the heat we decided to take in a movie at one of the luxury IMAX theatres and do a little shopping in the air conditioned centres instead.

From where we are, just north of Bangkok, it takes about 45 minutes by bus and sky train to get into town. Bangkok is another huge city, but it is much easier to get around in than those in Vietnam. I was afraid that it would be less organized and structured, but the bus and train systems are great. The prices in the department stores are better than at home in some places, but in others you can find dolls that are the equivalent of $400 Canadian! We thought we had the conversions wrong, but we asked the clerk, and we were right! OMG

CM