24/6
Dad: Woke up early today to say see you later to Helen who is headed to Australia and Kane who is leaving a bit later back to Blackpool in England.
Breakfast was some Thai soup before I took Croc and Kooka up to the pool for a morning splash – we had the pool to ourselves which was great so we all swam races – Croc won of course, kooka flew so he was disqualified and I came last. It’s really hot these last few days, about 35 degrees plus but the mornings are nice and on the roof there is a bit of a breeze so it’s cool enough.
Kane and I took a tuktuk (30baht and just 1 stop sir) to what we thought was a ‘park’ and although there was some grass there, most of it was concrete and not really what we would call a park at home – so we went wandering and found the kings house and chatted to one of the guards who just happened to have a very big gun…. He was really nice though and told us the king was home and no we couldn’t visit him and no he didn’t need us to bring him anything like pizza or beer.
We wandered back toward Khaosan road and I went back to the pool for a while – now it was packed out!
It was time to say see ya to Kane and we had a farewell beer at the shamrock and he jumped on his bus to the airport.
….and then there was just me… The last remaining bus/boat person in Bangkok…. But don’t worry tuktuk drivers, by the time I leave there will be 100 more to replace me…. The only issue will be getting Croc and Kooka to leave with me…. They have fallen in love here and found some friends…. Maybe I can convince them to bring their friends back to NZ with them…. I’ll try….
Love Dad. Xxx
(kooka and croc are out with their friends right now…)
