Bangkok Holiday - Day 6

Hello Day 6!

Just like Day 5, it was a full working day for me. Kissed the 3 Chongs goodbye and off I went on my way.  Took me about 30 minutes from apartment to the Bangkok office. For lunch that day, my Thai colleagues ordered food from a nearby restaurant and we ate at the office pantry.

With my 2 Thai Colleagues

OMG.... one is 54, the other 58 years old. Both with kids in their twenties!! I wanna look this good when I'm in my fifties!  The 54 yo showed me a recent photo of her son who just completed his MBA. Wah... such a heartthrob!

After lunch I walked around at the stalls nearby. Bought more earrings. Hehe (such as steal at THB 100 per pair. Since the stalls cater to the local working crowd, at least I know I'm not paying touristy prices)

Bought some fruits for the local office

Smaller packet is mine. Got mangoes and guava for myself - sooo good especially the guava. Can't remember the price now but it was cheaper, bigger packet and sweeter than the ones I bought earlier at Chatucak Market.  

All was good until hubby sent me a photo of the girls....

Girls @ Unicorn Cafe 

I've read about the cafe earlier. I wanna go too!!! 

After work that day, we headed to Train Night Market Ratchada. A bit troublesome to go since we had to take BTS then interchange with MRT. But it was definitely an interesting place.  No regrets at all.

Plenty of food stalls 

Dinner Part 1

Noodles in coconut shaped bowls  :-) 

Close up of Noodles

Note to self : when taking photos of food, try not to include other people's butt in the photo  ;-p 

Tried these too 

Nah, not worth the price. I think it was THB 250 for this container. 

Cutie Marshmallows for the girls

Walked around and took some photos of food:

Grilled Fish

Regret not trying! 

Assorted Seafood ready to be grilled 

Fried Insects

No regrets for not trying. hehe

It was nice to just walk around

With a giant Christmas tree 

Barber Shop

Surprised to see a barber shop amongst all the stalls!! Booming business too

Shopping makes us hungry so we went for Round 2 of dinner.

Seafood @ Holy Shrimp 

Not a new concept at all but something I've never tried actually. Really reasonable - I think it was THB 400 for the food. Girls were so fascinated with the concept of gloves and no plates. hehe. 

We managed to get a nice table on the first floor

Cleared everything! Burp! 

More walking after that - 

Charming place indeed! Definitely worth a visit.

-- End of Day 6 --

Bangkok Holiday - Day 5

Day 5 wasn't a holiday but a full working day for me. *sobs*
Not unplanned though.  My original intention was to go for a short family holiday during the school holidays since we already went to Australia in Sept. But hubby suggested to use our Marriott vacation club points for a week long holiday in Bangkok. Its a 7 night block, so will cost us the same whether its 4 nights or 7 nights.

So I booked my annual leave for a full week. But closer to the holiday, I realised there will just be too much work piling up for an upcoming deadline. So instead of having to work throughout my holiday anyway, decided to just cancel 2 days leave to work 2 full days from our Bangkok office.

Took BTS to the office that day

Just look at the traffic!

With my Thai counterpart 

I was actually quite tired that day. Elyssa vomited 7 times the night before. The empty-out-entire-stomach-content type of vomit. Sigh. 

My view for the day

Which was reaalllly tough especially when hubby whatsapp me the photos below

Girls enjoying their Japanese lunch 
Luckily Elyssa's tummy was fine and dandy that day

Afternoon break

Darn it! I soooo wanna be with them! 

Finished work around 6.30pm. Looked out the window and was surprised it was almost pitch dark! Forgot about the time difference. Quickly dashed back.

Reached apartment and found this waiting for me

Wah.... if only it's like that everyday. Hehe

During dinner, I made the mistake of asking hubby one question - do you still wanna shop tonight?  He said YES immediately!  He suggested MBK to get his suit (uhmm.... but why so excited?) and to get his SPAWN toy. (aHAH that was it! He already bought one of the action figure the previous day but was eyeing a second one. Boys and their toys!).  So dumped all the dishes into the sink and headed out pronto.

In the train 

He reached the toy shop just as they were about to close! Someone was grinning from ear to ear. Haha.
Shopped till the mall closed but spotted some eating stalls near the train station.

Still so lively 

Ended up eating supper before leaving 

Back at the apartment, the girls did their drawing while we did the dishes and laundry.

Then time to Zzzzz.

-- End of Day 5 --

Bangkok Holiday - Day 4

Day 4

Main itinerary for the day was Hello Kitty Cafe @ Siam Square.  Took the train and reached pretty close to opening time.

Warning...... cloyingly sweet photos ahead!

With Grandpa and Grandma Kitty 

Pink, Pink Everywhere Pink! 

3 Floors of Pink! 

Our order

Rainbow cakes and milk tea. At absurd prices of course. (THB 695 for all). But oh so preeeetyyyy! 

Dig in!

We-fie with Elyssa 

More sweet pinkie photos -- 

With Hello Kitty Tuk-Tuk 

Check out the Stained Glass Ceiling 

With Erin 

Cafe Entrance 

Merchandise Floor 

Went shopping at MBK after that.
Finally got my selfie stick! Yay! Took a while to find a slim bluetooth selfie stick.

First family selfie using the selfie stick  :-) 

Went to MBK foodcourt for late lunch

Shopped a bit at MBK.  Hubby got himself a custom made suit and pants.

Then, it was back to our regular evening activity....

They never get tired of going to the pool

And as usual, the only way to convince Erin to get out of the pool was the promise of bathtub fun in the apartment. 

Complimentary cucumber water spray

First time I see this. Something so simple yet so refreshing. 

Tapao-ed dinner from nearby foodcourt and ate back at the apartment 

-- End of Day 4 --