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Phuket – It’s beautiful here!
October 13, 2007 by Leave a Comment
We finally made it to paradise!
We arrived in Phuket yesterday. It’s so beautiful here! We are staying in a resort overlooking the ocean. We have to move hotels today and after that, we have 8 days to relax and enjoy!
There are all sorts of things to do here – island hopping on a speedboat, driving an ATV through the jungle, elephant trekking. We are excited to do a few of these things!
Monkey is doing great, happy and eating eating eating. I’ve never seen anyone eat like that baby, he keeps up with me and Owen at each meal. He’ll eat anything we give him. Of course he favors ice cream and sweet stuff, but so far he’s eaten all sorts of noodles, meat, rice, soups, everything!
So I just wanted to write a quick update and to say we are all great! I’ll post some pictures soon.
We’re in Thailand!
October 11, 2007 by Leave a Comment
Today we are in Bangkok, Thailand! We arrived last night. Boy, is this different from Singapore. Singapore felt very western, everything was clean, organized. Owen described it as flying around in a circle over LA burning fuel and then landing again – that’s what it felt like. Except it had a nice river in the middle. Other than that, we didn’t really feel like we left LA.
Thailand is completely different. We arrived last night and it is very busy here, it’s a large city but it’s very poor and disorganized.
Little Dorje loves it though, he loves anything with lots of people. Today we got to see a little bit of Bangkok. We visited the Royal Palace and he had an entire group of school girls, probably in ther late teens, flirting with him. We also went to two Buddhist temples and saw some AMAZING statues of Buddhas and Thai art.
The people here are very kind and friendly. They’ve been very helpful to us. Wherever we go, people smile and engage him, and he rewards them with a big smile. It’s been freaky though because everyone touches him, so of course I am thinking – GERMS. But so far he is healthy and happy as can be.
So that’s our brief update. In the meantime, here are some pics of Dorje in Singapore:
And here’s a preview:
