Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Day Three
22nd March

Alex got up at 600 AM. We hung out in the bedroom while she played. On Satellite we found some Disney channels, and played some shows for her while she plays. Once we had breakfast, we packed up for Pranburi, our van to show at 10 AM. We are paying a man to drive us down. They say its 200 or so kilometers, its around a 3 hour drive. Kim can’t go, she has college courses. Snow Alex and I go with her mother and Kung. Traffic is slow getting out of the city. We see the marshes where they make salt. We stop at a rest stop, and buy coffee for Snow, Lay’s chips, water for me to put Lipton Tea-To-Go in.
We have lunch in a town a half hour from Pranburi called Hua Hin, which is an older more established beach resort town. They have beaches and resorts and high rises reaching up to the Gulf of Thailand. The Gulf is like the Gulf of Mexico but smaller. The water is warm. Upper 70s to 80 or so. And the waves are smaller than the ocean. We are taken by our driver to restaurant on the beach, where we ate on a covered patio, at the sand’s edge. The food was outstanding. Great squid and fish in a soup broth. After she finished eating, Alex ran around on the sand with Snow, then with me. She saw a couple of horses that are hired out for rides on the sand. There were a few dogs too. She had a great time, and the wind was blowing. She had her white hat, and she actually kept it on
After playing on the sand for nearly an hour, we drove the rest of the way to our resort, Tuangsook Lake Hills Resort.

Our hotel is very pretty, the rooms for the most part are very nice. But it is in a rural areas, there’s not much close by, but there are nice vistas for the surrounding hills. Its very peaceful this small two lane road winds in front of it. There wasn t any internet connection the first day. The TV has 6 channels--5 in Thai, and 1 in Belgium Flemish. I cant believe it. Where did that come from? I haven’t seen it before, and to see it in Thailand is a bit stunning. Snow said she heard Alex say “ bottle. “

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