Good morning world.
As a large parrot I need my space and this is a concrete jungle! Oh for the trees… Bangkok is apparently not
nearly as bad as used to be according to Toni.
She remembers smog filled streets and traffic chaos, as cities go this
isn’t too bad.
As it is 1 July, Toni has a bit of administration to do –
mainly wages as we need to pay our wonderful staff back at Kinloch. This is a bit of a complex thing to do as the
access key for logging onto the cloud with Netpay is sent to Toni’s mobile so
this means that Portia needs to email Toni straight away before this
expires. There are three new fabulous
casual staff to add and 4 pages of input for each one. John is going a little stir crazy waiting for
Toni and personally I need my morning walk as well. Toni points out to John that this is an extra
day and we should use this to catch up.
The afternoon is spent sorting out Lucy’s phone. A rather unfortunate incident of water in the
bag in the minor splash zone at Water world, Universal Studios caused Lucy and
James’s phones to stop working so consequently they were without their
cameras. James’s phone luckily dried out
though
Lucy’s phone would not budge.
What service, straight to Samsung customer service to have it looked
at. They determined that it would cost
more than the phone was worth to replace this, gave us a quotation and
consequently we hit the ‘Power Mall’ to choose Lucy a new phone.
During this process the kids were introduced to Vietnamese
food in the massive food hall. I quite
approve of these tasty treats. Lots of
interesting flavoured nuts and veges wrapped in clear pancakes. Too much hot sauce turned me into a
turbo-charged parrot and this was much needed as the process of getting home
left a lot to be desired. John left
early to grab the visas rather than hang out with the children looking into
phones. By the time the kids were ready
to go, they queued for a taxi for 20 minutes and gave up. Hit the MTR, then gave up and walked faster
than the traffic down the road towards Sukhimvit.
Eventually the traffic started to move and cabs became
available so it was 45 minutes through traffic back to the Charming Apartment.
Straight to the rooftop to the pool and to watch the sun
setting over Bangkok ready for another day.
Dinner was had at a street restaurant with a Korean style chicken
BBQ. No-one wanted to stay up!
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