Bangkok Easter Weekend

Madison, our last night having a very nice dinner at an Italian dinner

A man cooking fish, on his bike trolley in the middle of traffic
Dinner at "cabbages and Condoms" A beautiful setting with great thai food
A lady dressed in condoms
An afternoon break, jumping on the king size bed in the air con

Steve's very interesting, very good, thai appetizer
Chatahuck Market
So many strawberries along with the best fresh juice shakes
At the market
Lunch at the creperie, such a nice place

The Grand Palace
The Emerald Buddha

At the airport
Madi meets a friend and gives her a hug at the airport, this is just before they both topple over
At the Grand Palace

On Thursday night we left for Bangkok . We arrived quite late, Madi was already asleep, so we went straight to bed. Our hotel was great, very central, clean and had breakfast delivered every morning.
On Friday we were up and ready by about 9 and went to see the Grand Palace . This is quite the place, with very elaborate temples and buildings. We saw the Emerald Buddha and explored a little bit. We then stopped for lunch, including a fresh fruit shake and a beer of course!Then a river taxi to a shopping centre. After that we went to check out Bangkok ’s biggest mall. After a short while we were tired and hot and took a tuk tuk back to the hotel. The traffic in Bangkok is crazy! You can walk faster than a taxi can drive you! And in the tuk tuk we were sucking the fumes of the other cars all the way home!When we got back to our hotel we took a short nap, had showers and went out for dinner. We went to a place that was highly recommended called Cabbages and Condoms…I have no idea why. It was Thai food and it was delicious! And the setting was beautiful! Lights throughout the vines and a beautiful patio to sit on.
After dinner we went to one of the night Markets, Suan Lum, it was great, although we were tired and Madi was asleep in her stroller! We walked through and checked lots of things out, but did not buy anythig…crazy!
Saturday morning we went to the world famous Chatachuk Market. It is the weekend market in Bangkok and has something like 20 000 visitors per day. We walked around for a few hours and found a few great treasures. By about 12:30 We were hot and tired so we went back to the hotel for a shower and some play time with Madi. We went out to an amazing Creperie for lunch, expensive, but delicious! It was a great way to spend the afternoon!
Dinner was around 8 at a beautiful Italian place. And then we headed back to our hotel and watched a DVD.
Sunday morning we went to the airport and flew back to Singapore . We got home around 4:00 and left at 4:30 for a BBQ.
We had a fantastic weekend away exploring a great city and enjoying spending time together.

D'Coconut

A fun game of beach volleyball

On our way to the Island
A game of 'frolf' (frisbee golf) with Steve, Julie, Ben, Carrie and Charla
Ahh, palm trees
The boys in the pool
Our huts

March 14-16th

Twice a year the staff organizes a weekend away on an island in Malaysia . We went to Sibu in September and now to the resort D’Coconut on an island that I forget the name of.
Anyway, we left Friday after school and drove across the Border and then on into Malaysia for two hours to get to the ferry that took us 30 minutes to the island. We arrived at about 8pm, had dinner, a few drinks and went to bed. Saturday was spent walking down the beach, swimming in the ocean, reading on the beach and by the pool and some beach volleyball. The evening was spent having some drinks and great conversation on the beach.
My camera went missing in mid afternoon while playing beach volleyball. As you can imagine I was pretty worried about it, I had a 2G card in it, with pictures from December, our whole Dubai trip and Madi over the past few months. Anyway, after much searching and worrying, Sunday morning someone turned up with it…so all was okay. But I am missing a significant number of pics from Saturday night. Steve got a bit silly and was up into the wee hours of the morning.
Sunday was spent doing much the same as Saturday, although some of us were feeling a little rough. We left Sunday afternoon and arrived back in Singapore at about 9pm. The weekend was wonderful, nothing to do but relax! We missed our little angel lots, but she seemed to have a fine weekend with Josefina.

The last little while in Singapore

Wouldn't you know, Steve runs into a girl he went to UW with in Singapore!
Easter Sunday BBQ, Shawn doing the BBQing

Our table name at the charity event
Steve and I at the Charity event
Madison having fun with our Duvet

Madison at Gymboree
Steve and I
Madison and Lee-Anne
Our little angel heading to the bath
The girls at the Charity event

Our little Cutie
Bowling at the American club with Nicole and Shawn
Madi playing with her puzzels
Our night out for dinner with the french chefs
Me, Sara, Nicole, Belinda, Calico and Nicole

Dinner time! Learning to feed herself
Oh look who has found her nose!

She LOVES playing with our shoes and my purse
Aussie day BBQ at Ben and Carrie's

Well, it is already March, we cannot believe how fast time has been going lately. We still feel like we are in a time warp with the same weather everyday, although the many pictures from Canada of the insane amount of snow that has fallen did help to remind us that it is winter somewhere in the world.
Madison is now 19 months old, and doing fantastic! She is getting so tall and her hair is getting so long, although you’d never know as it is so curly! She is not saying any words really yet, although she “talks” all the time. She will repeat many sounds “say I I I, or OOO, or AAA, or EEE” So she has her vowels down! She is really good at many things like puzzles and shapes. She laughs a lot and loves to run around and jump on the bed.

Steve and I have been very busy with school, but are still enjoying it a lot.
We have been having great weekends doing many fun things. At Christmas there was an auction and the girls bid on a dinner made by our three male French staff and that happened in February. It was a really fun night with great company and fantastic food and wine.
We had another great night out at a charity event for a Cambodia orphanage. A dress up affair with a Hollywood theme, red carpet and all.