Thailand sizes are very small. I was warned about this before I left - “you probably won’t fit into any of their clothes,” my sister said, “their sizes go from small to tiny”.
So as I was in the market shopping I learned:
most clothing is one size fits all - so said the vendors (NO, one [...]
This is a Rambutan. It’s a bright red spiny Malayan fruit. It’s a little scary looking but it tastes good. Kind of like a big grape. Of course I didn’t try one until someone else did.
are cute and they’re also hard to get on. And this was a small elephant!
I barely made it on him, the elephant trainer had to push my rear to get me up. Then I almost fell off. I had a hard time getting off.
I think there’s a video out there somewhere of me trying to [...]
Was great! Karin, Rob and I spent 3 days in Chiang Mai. It was our little vacation time and after being in huge city Bangkok it was nice to be in a smaller less crowded and more laid back city.
What did we do in Chiang Mai?
~ Did a whole day elephant tour and bamboo raft [...]
(Me sitting in the tuk-tuk)
It’s almost 9:30 pm Sunday here in Bangkok. I’m trying to remember what we did yesterday. Oh, okay I remember.
Saturday
Kathy from the office and I went to Chatuchak Weekend Market. We were on the hunt for ministry items for Rob’s office. It was hot. April is the hottest month of the [...]
Just so you know, it’s 11 pm here even though it shows I’m posting at a different time. It’s Friday night. Rob and I wore our Hokie orange even though no one here knew what it meant.
Today I slept in and it was really nice after working so hard on the conference. And then I [...]
Mangos & Sticky Rice
Originally uploaded by Patricia102696.
This is the best dessert in the world!!! And I am a chocolate lover, but this beats chocolate any day!
It’s a Thai dessert. The mangos are so sweet and the rice is sticky, hence the sticky rice name, and they put a sweet coconut sauce on top [...]
