So we had 5 days in Bangkok with Jonas & Co. Henny, Jonas's mom, remembers when Eelco was born, and so Eelco's first memories of life involve Jonas. Since Eelco and I are together we have also spend some precious time with Jonas & Tjitske and their two boys, and although we don't see them often enough, they are very dear to us. So when they planned a month's trip to Bangkok, we all thought it too close to give up on the opportunity to see them.
We spend 5 glorious days together, with little time for camera's so we only have a suite of very bad quality pictures of five very very happy days together.We tried to perfect the art of taking selfless in a yuk yuk, at night, on bad roads,…unsuccessfully.
Olaf & Hadde showed Rick and Kaat how to work the photo apps on our iPhones, so we have loads of this kind of material.
Kaat was happy we had a real Olaf, and used him for everything, and Rick was happy to hang out with the big boys
We ate copious amounts of good food, in weird combinations, for next to no money. Three more please, says Kaat!
Duuk tried to meet some friends his own age
And was not forgotten by his big 'bro' and 'sis'
Of course Jonas taught Rick how to eat with sticks
And we did the weekend market
Had some food there for the 10 of us for 250 Bhat (8 Euro, 9 USD)
Of course Jonas also tried to source some wood for a project in NL and showed up at the market with a sample, which Rick then happily carried around for the next 6 hours.
Slightly better yuk yuk selfies at speed
At a fish restaurant
debating on whether this was the ugliest ugliest or prettiest ugliest party ship in Bangkok. Kaat voted for the latter -;)
Cheesy grins
At birthday Sushi dinner for Eelco (and Hadde)
We also did on a weekday a watermark with just the boys on the roof of a mall. NOBODY THERE?!?! For the full 2 hours we where there. So we did all sorts off races, and Rick won of course, and then did the typical Asian arcade. Hadde was paying for all the rides, which were dirt cheap, w=so we had to stay quite a while as Jonas had told him to finish the money -:)
Fortunately he had a happy customer in Duuk
Who wanted to pretend to be Anbu on his motorbike
Of course Kaat beat Rick in all games
We did all sorts of stuff as a group. Like swamp the 2x1.5m taylor shop where Jonas had ordered stuff with the 10 of us.
We had a very very happy few days clearly
Despite having left our 'stick house' in Mieussy, we found another one in Bangkok
Duuk stripped at the taxi rank, hoping to get a car sooner
Lots of time for coffee & smoothie breaks
Then Rick caught the stripping bug too
And lots of time for laugher, fun, jokes
And draghino up fond memories. We established it had been at least 25 years since Henny attended Eelco's birthday party!
The big boys also clearly love to spend time with our kids
And big Jonas is of course the best!
Super 5 days, bad pictures, and very few of them but a head and hart full of fond memories.
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