Day Two
21st March
Alex wakes up at 430 AM in the morning.
Snow and I are up at 430 AM. She is loud. She is up and ready to play and go downstairs. Maybe it was the 3 and half hour nap earlier in the day or that she was asleep by 930 PM. Or the heat maybe. Its around 95 Thursday but its always very humid too. Snow and I take her downstairs. We play downstairs, no one else is up but Numphu who is leaving for work at 5 AM. We have a little cinnamon roll. I watch the first round of the golf tournament from Doral, but it’s the end of the coverage from golf channel and its pouring out. We go back upstairs before 6 am and Alex and Snow and I get to sleep till 8 or so.
We set out for a mall after breakfast. Its called Platinum, located in urban Bangkok among the hotels and shopping centers, a neighborhood called Pratenum. So perhaps the mall is a play on words of the neighborhood name. the Mall is 6 stories tall, and there are escalators. One floor is all food court, they have like 50 windows, all a slightly different kind of food, Japanese here, Indian there, diff Thai foods. Some with rice some with noodles, some with soup, some with curry. You buy a money card and charge it down with each order. I get some Indian food, nan (their bread) some tandoori chicken (it’s a red-orange shade from the spices), some rice, some sauce. Snow’s mom, Kung and Kim are in tow and get a noodle soup, I think its spicy. Alex eats a lil from all of us, loves to get down and wander around the table looking at everyone else of course.
This mall has very tiny shops like something you see at a swap meet, and the aisles between them is very narrow, like only two people can walk side by side. If someone stops to look it means we have to go around trying not to run into someone coming at you from the other way. The shops are like walk-in closet size and only 4 or 5 or 6 can be in any one shop at the same time. Alex is all about taking the escalator, while we are on floor 2, she is staring at the escalators in the center of the floor saying “up, up, up” as I carry her. She points at the escalators. So while Snow and family are close in view to them, I take her up and down a floor. Ride up, Ride down. Sometimes she gets off the escalator on her own while holding our hand.
After lunch we are off to head home, its around 345 pm already. Alex is tired, We got some stuff for snow and they each got something. Cept me. The taxi ride back takes a long time, the traffic in Bangkok now considered by Time the worst in the world, much uglier than LA even worse than Boston and Atlanta and they are supposed to be bad. A road is closed, that we need to take home, so we are forced onto the highway. You pay 40 baht toll, about $1.20. There are 3 lanes, but the Thai drivers drive four cars wide, essentially driving on the shoulder. No one cares about it in Bangkok. After our trip, Alex ran around the yard with Numphu’s three kids, the nannies, Snow and I, and Kim and Kung. it’s a huge yard and there’s a sandbox, swings, a slide, teeter totter, and lots of grass to run around. She had so much fun and her only problem was the slide doesn’t let you slide fast, its so slow you almost have to push yourself down, the plastic was worn down. She was eager to interact with the other children. Sadly, the children see the nannies much more than the parents who both work a lot. Their father will be home much more after the surgery. He needs six months of rehabilitation and therapy.
Around six in the evening, in the dusk, we decide to head out to another mall to get some hair gel that I didn’t pack, a phone card to call home, perhaps a cell phone to use for the trip, perhaps a pair of new glasses and some backup contact lenses. Snow and I debate whether to leave Alex at the house to nap, or will she get upset if we leave without her and she won’t sleep at all. She never napped in the afternoon. We could leave her with Kim and Kung, and she gets along well with Kim. In the end, we brought her along, with Kim and Kung too. The five of us in a taxi heading for the mall, this time the Mall Bang-Ka-Pi. Then by 730 PM she fell asleep, while in the mall with us. We had to carry her around with us till we could get back. We needed to eat dinner, so we went to a Nisson Ramen place with large booths and we could put her down to sleep while we all had soup teriyaki and California rolls.
We spent the evening in the room, since Kriang was returning home from the hospital and they set up a bed in the family room. I found a channel that airs Survivor on Friday nights. So I tuned in, and it was the most current episode from this week.
21st March
Alex wakes up at 430 AM in the morning.
Snow and I are up at 430 AM. She is loud. She is up and ready to play and go downstairs. Maybe it was the 3 and half hour nap earlier in the day or that she was asleep by 930 PM. Or the heat maybe. Its around 95 Thursday but its always very humid too. Snow and I take her downstairs. We play downstairs, no one else is up but Numphu who is leaving for work at 5 AM. We have a little cinnamon roll. I watch the first round of the golf tournament from Doral, but it’s the end of the coverage from golf channel and its pouring out. We go back upstairs before 6 am and Alex and Snow and I get to sleep till 8 or so.
We set out for a mall after breakfast. Its called Platinum, located in urban Bangkok among the hotels and shopping centers, a neighborhood called Pratenum. So perhaps the mall is a play on words of the neighborhood name. the Mall is 6 stories tall, and there are escalators. One floor is all food court, they have like 50 windows, all a slightly different kind of food, Japanese here, Indian there, diff Thai foods. Some with rice some with noodles, some with soup, some with curry. You buy a money card and charge it down with each order. I get some Indian food, nan (their bread) some tandoori chicken (it’s a red-orange shade from the spices), some rice, some sauce. Snow’s mom, Kung and Kim are in tow and get a noodle soup, I think its spicy. Alex eats a lil from all of us, loves to get down and wander around the table looking at everyone else of course.
This mall has very tiny shops like something you see at a swap meet, and the aisles between them is very narrow, like only two people can walk side by side. If someone stops to look it means we have to go around trying not to run into someone coming at you from the other way. The shops are like walk-in closet size and only 4 or 5 or 6 can be in any one shop at the same time. Alex is all about taking the escalator, while we are on floor 2, she is staring at the escalators in the center of the floor saying “up, up, up” as I carry her. She points at the escalators. So while Snow and family are close in view to them, I take her up and down a floor. Ride up, Ride down. Sometimes she gets off the escalator on her own while holding our hand.
After lunch we are off to head home, its around 345 pm already. Alex is tired, We got some stuff for snow and they each got something. Cept me. The taxi ride back takes a long time, the traffic in Bangkok now considered by Time the worst in the world, much uglier than LA even worse than Boston and Atlanta and they are supposed to be bad. A road is closed, that we need to take home, so we are forced onto the highway. You pay 40 baht toll, about $1.20. There are 3 lanes, but the Thai drivers drive four cars wide, essentially driving on the shoulder. No one cares about it in Bangkok. After our trip, Alex ran around the yard with Numphu’s three kids, the nannies, Snow and I, and Kim and Kung. it’s a huge yard and there’s a sandbox, swings, a slide, teeter totter, and lots of grass to run around. She had so much fun and her only problem was the slide doesn’t let you slide fast, its so slow you almost have to push yourself down, the plastic was worn down. She was eager to interact with the other children. Sadly, the children see the nannies much more than the parents who both work a lot. Their father will be home much more after the surgery. He needs six months of rehabilitation and therapy.
Around six in the evening, in the dusk, we decide to head out to another mall to get some hair gel that I didn’t pack, a phone card to call home, perhaps a cell phone to use for the trip, perhaps a pair of new glasses and some backup contact lenses. Snow and I debate whether to leave Alex at the house to nap, or will she get upset if we leave without her and she won’t sleep at all. She never napped in the afternoon. We could leave her with Kim and Kung, and she gets along well with Kim. In the end, we brought her along, with Kim and Kung too. The five of us in a taxi heading for the mall, this time the Mall Bang-Ka-Pi. Then by 730 PM she fell asleep, while in the mall with us. We had to carry her around with us till we could get back. We needed to eat dinner, so we went to a Nisson Ramen place with large booths and we could put her down to sleep while we all had soup teriyaki and California rolls.
We spent the evening in the room, since Kriang was returning home from the hospital and they set up a bed in the family room. I found a channel that airs Survivor on Friday nights. So I tuned in, and it was the most current episode from this week.
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