Some food pic's and the all important shoe pic's...

Another great day and again we are about to head out to the markets, we have not stopped since we got here......took a taxi to the shopping centre to get Greg a pair of shoes, ended up getting him some and Ethan a new pair of mainly white joggers for school....these were not really that cheap and could probably have got them at a better price in Sydney but because of really sore feet on Greg's part they were really needed.....Had some lunch in the biggest food court you have ever seen with the most amazing variety of foods.....not street market but yes, we all ate it and if you know how I feel about street food you will know that is a huge step for me.....
Came back to the hotel and the boys wanted massages again so we headed down to the massage place, the boys both had foot massages, I had a anti-stress massage (much needed) and Greg had a oil massage they were all for a hour and the total cost was $900 Baht.....about $32 AUD
While we were waiting for Dan to finish his massage we walked to the shopping centre and found exactly what I had been looking for Fitflops I just love these shoes and they are so expensive at home, I brought 5 pairs and the total cost of the 5 were $184AUD......one pair at home is around $179 and the copy pairs here are $18 AUD....they are not the most recent styles but I don't care they look fabulous....Grandma if you are reading this the back one is yours do you want any more?

The cutest button shoes all sewn on by hand....

The taxi this morning, they all have seatbelts it's just most of them have no clip and nothing to clip it into...

Don't feed the horse that lives in the foyer...

Out the front of the shopping centre...

Umm, yes please, send this one home for Grandpa....

The nicest fruit shop I have seen....

These guys were making rock candy and when they had finished the purple in the middle was the shape of grapes.

Not sure what the dog is but I thought it would look good in my garden..

Gelato presented so perfectly, how could you say no.

Different types of milk...

Some sort of chip things...

Yes, that's right take a break at lunchtime....

Waiting to be cooked....

Cuttlefish

Chicken and pork satay, Dan & I shared 10 of these.....

Noodles of course....

One for the girls, you know who you are.....

Street market on the way back to the hotel....

These were the smallest prawns I have ever seen they were still jumping when I took this photo, not sure how they cooked them no one was buying them when we were there...

The boys had 3 lots of these eggy things they were empty in the middle & very tasty...

Ahhh, shoes beautiful shoes....Grandma take a look at the back ones...

A new dress to wear to The Palace tomorrow with my new shoes....

A late start and we are off again....

Had  a bit of a late start this morning, went down to breakfast and one of the chef's cooked the perfect poached eggs, they have the most amazing spread from noodles to soup to omelettes cooked to order, crispy bacon so Ethan is in his element here......we were going to go to the Royal Palace but we are now going in search of a pair of shoes for Greg the ones he has on are hurting so new shoes it is.....
The shop's here are so different to Hong Kong and China they don't follow you or really care if you don't buy something...it is still fun but if you walk out of the shop they won't come after you.....

We are on the 18th floor and this is the view from the boys room...

Ethan's new shorts and t-shirt

New pants for me.....

This morning brought new flowers downstairs the green ones look like puffer fish...

For Trisha gingerbread community

For the tasters a huge wine fridge....

The smallest mandarins I have ever seen, the pineapples are tiny as well...

I want to take this kitchen home with the chef's of course....

This was the bread and butter plate with a mandarin that was no bigger than a 10 cent piece....

Shopping, Shopping and more Shopping

We have just got back to the hotel from around 6 hours of shopping and guess what we are off out again......
Most things are so very cheap it is insane but somethings are more expensive than at home.....Ethan has so much new stuff I have one new outfit there has been new underwear brought & Greg hasn't got anything yet....everything he likes is well not very stylish too be polite but he will get there.....
Had a great breakfast this morning eggs benedict with freshly made pastries & lot's of  yummy fruit.....Japanese for lunch cooked in front of us & nothing for dinner yet as we popped into the Executive Club and had some snacks when we got back......

For Trisha, the display at the hotel....

Not sure about this sign.....

Koi at the pond at the hotel....

Orchids at the hotel...

Somewhere over the top end

Dan's chicken and Cous Cous for lunch on the plane....

That's a Singapore Airlines A380 to the side of us...

Bangkok airport....

Christmas display out the front of the hotel....

Somewhere around Vietnam

Over the top of Vietnam

What an eventful first day of our holidys......

It started off so well got to the airport with plenty of time, though it did ages to get through Customs, Greg was picked for the full body scan, I was picked for the drug and explosives test & Dan got both, Ethan got through with nothing.....
Was at the gate on time, boarded  on time, got into our seats getting settled in for the 9 hour flight the Captain tells  us the stats of the flight and then the Auxilary Power Supply in the tail catches fire, it was caused by a oil leak, smoke billowing out and as we were thinking umm, this is not right all the power goes down on the plane......We have emergency vehicles coming in all directions and the Captain gets on a back up PA to tell us to stay seated and the flight crew will get back to us......My phone was turned off for the flight so I have no photo's of the smoke but hopefully you get the picture......The Captain came back on to tell us that we were to disembark while the engineer's checked out the problem.....we were back onboard 2 hours later with no APS, it is only used to give power to the plane when it is on the ground, when we landed at Bangkok they hooked us up to the terminal power supply the engines were kept running until that was done as we would have had no air-con or lighting if they had switched the engines off...

The Fireman waiting for us to get off the plane.

Reflection of the plane with the fireman & engineers looking in the tail...

Fire engines all around the back of the plane....

The first of the fireman on the scene....

It's holiday time again......

We are off to Bangkok and Chaing Mai on Saturday for our yearly Christmas break, because of the business this is the only time we can all go together.......We usually go on Boxing Day but we are having a few days at home before venturing off on the 28th....Christmas is all packed up and tomorrow the suitcases will come out ready to be sent empty so that we can fill them up with lots of new things.....I badly need shoes......ha, isn't that what all the girls say......
Hoping to do a few cooking classes along the way......