Christmas re-visited

Okay, so I never really blogged about Christmas! My mom and brother were here (in and out) for about 2 weeks. We had a pretty busy schedule planned for them to visit, do and see as much as possible in the time that they were here. Some of the things that we did included:

1. Taking a Thai cooking class (which I already blogged about)
2. Going to a floating market with our friend Diana and her family
3. Going to the Grand Palace and Wat Pho with our friend A
4. Taking a riverboat dinner cruise
5. Going on a bike ride through the "slums" and the "jungle"
6. Going on a bike ride through the Ancient City
7. Going to a Thai cultural show at Siam Niramit
8. Getting Greg a suit/tie/shirt custom-made at "Jim Man"
9. Eating Thai food down at Yellow-Yellow
10. Eating Japanese food at Akiyoshi (my favorite restaurant)
11. Going to 2 different Christmas parties with our international teacher friends
12. Eating Lebanese food and playing games on New Year's Eve with some of our international teacher friends
13. Going to the Night Bizarre
14. Just hangin' out together

Here are some of my favorite pictures from their stay with us. :)

Cutting open coconuts for us to eat at the floating market

Floating Market Dumnoen Saduak

Bracelets and Necklaces at the floating market

At the coconut sugar farm...

Did you know that spices are spicy?

Tuk-tuks outside of the grand palace

Grand Palace

Wat Pho

Reclining Buddha

Ceramic bowls by the massive Reclining Buddha stature to put coins in for "good luck"

Cycling tour around the slums and "the jungle"
aka: pavement paths that go through slimy khlongs.

Ferry to "the jungle"

City view

Bike on boat ferry

In the slummy areas of Bangkok

Mom going over the rickety bridge

View of Wat Arun from the dinner boat cruise

One of my favorite bridges to photograph