My kids have been talking about going to the beach for some time, and so am I. LOL! It’s been years since my last trip to any beaches in Thailand, so I was dying for a trip! When hubby agreed on going to Pattaya on Saturday night, all of us were so excited. The children packed their simple bentos full of cookies and junks for the journey before going to bed.

Surprisingly, both our kids woke up at 6am on Sunday morning, even before hubby and I managed to get out of bed. That’s how eager and anticipated they were. I prepared some food for them for the picnic and off we went to pick up BIL’s family who were going with us too.

It took us about 2 hours to reach Pattaya, and the weather was great. It’s been raining cats and dogs in Bangkok these days, but it was so sunny yesterday.

Pattaya, here we are!

Can’t really open our eyes. It’s so sunny!

There are a few attractions here in Pattaya, but we were only interested to go to the beach. We found a less crowded beach somewhere between Pattaya beach and Jomtien. There were not a lot of people here, so it’s perfect for us.

We found a shady spot…

We are at the beach now, yippie!

We forgot to pack the sand toys for the children, so they played with the sand with their sandals for awhile. Shortly after, someone came selling sand toys to us and my kids could have more fun building their “sandcastle”.

Use our sandals first la…

Yeah! Got toys liao…

As usual, I enjoyed the sun a lot and took lots of photos of the topless angmoh girls, my kids, and the view.  The only thing I don’t like about the beach is it’s not totally clean. But well, it’s hard to find a clean beach now…Or maybe Rayong is better???

Not so clean due to the tide, I guess….

Oh ya, for my friends and family back home, here are some photos…

The leng chai koh koh…

The chubby mei mei…

 
The sleeping Thong Thong…

Something bad happened in the afternoon though. There was a family having a picnic just by our side. Their children went for a swim in the sea and 3 of them almost drown. We were playing by the waves and I heard the boy calling in Thai. Hubby thought that they were playing but I said they might be drowning. A few people heard that too and some men came to rescue.

The waves were strong, and kept pushing the children away. It took them a few minutes to get to the children and everyone was glad that one of the farang (foreigner in Thai) is a good swimmer. He managed to grab 2 children while their father got the other one. I tell you, everyone on the beach was worried. It’s like seeing the children drowning before our own eyes. Gosh…I’m glad that they are all saved, especially the older girl who’s holding onto a younger sibling. She was conscious, but motionless when they brought her up. After vomited some water, she looked better but still very pale. The ambulance came shortly after and brought the girl to the hospital.

Hubby almost jumped in, but then…..you see the photo la…Justin refused to let go of pa pa loh. My kids were very scared.

I dunno where the float came out from, but hubby pushed it to the rescuers in the sea.

The family involved thanked the farang. He’s one good swimmer!

After seeing this incident, my kids realised how dangerous it is if they go to the sea unattended. Before this happened, Justin wanted to go to the water by himself, but we stopped him. I guess he understand the reason now.

We left the beach at about 4pm and headed to Nong Nooch Tropical Botanical Garden and Resort. This is such a nice place, if you have kids and enjoy photography. I snapped more than 300 photos here. LOL!

Nong Nooch Tropical Botanical Garden and Resort

Actually, we arrived here kind of late, so we missed all the shows. Next time, we will come early, and spend a night in Pattaya so that we can have a nice walk in the big garden.

There is a small petting zoo here, and my kids went for horse and elephant riding again.

Mei mei, there’s a foal!

Can I ride on the dockey? LOL!

Waa!!! Stupid goat, go away!

I love horses!

Another family photo…

Mei mei, hold on tight ya? Don’t let go ya? (Justin really likes to watch over Isabelle)

Thong Thong is curious about anything!

On elephant ride. Too bad the professional cameraman “sao gong” already!

Feeding the elephant

We took a ride on the tour bus around the garden, and snapped more photos at the Cactus Garden and French Garden. We should really come here earlier as it’s getting sunset and the park closes at 6pm.

At the Cactus and Succulent Garden

At the French Garden

Have a stroll on the Sky Walk

The view is nice, that’s why I snapped so many photos. LOL! We should come here again some day…

We were the last visitors to leave the garden. Gosh, it gets dark earlier now, so it’s hard to have a lot of activities in the evening. We went for seafood as I was starving. It’s too dark dining on the beach, so no more photos on the nice big prawns we had.

It’s a nice day trip to Pattaya, and my kids were exhausted. They basically slept all the way back to our home, and they fussed a bit when we woke them up for shower. Have to take shower la, so “dirty” after a fun day in Pattaya.

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I know how blur hubby and I were yesterday, but we tried to make it special by celebrating our anniversary with the kids. We could just eat out, but it’s better to enjoy our meals at home so that my kids could be as messy as they wanted to be.

We bought a vanilla butter cake from S&P, and my kids were happy about it. They thought it’s papa and mommy’s birthdays, and they can’t understand what anniversary means. All they knew was they could have cake after dinner! LOL!

We put candles first…papa said 5 only.

Happy 5th anniversary!

Of course, , even if we told them to sing Happy Anniversary, the kids sang Happy Birthday. LOL!

Blowing candles…

I cut, I cut, I cut cut cut. *Actually, the cake was smashed. *

For the first time, we snapped a family photo using auto timer.

So, 5 years down the road, we have Justin and Isabelle celebrating our anniversary with us.

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I’m still getting used to the culture in Thailand, but so far, I think Thai people pray a lot. SIL organized a praying ritual yesterday, and it’s something the office staffs do on annual basis. We had to be there as early as 7.30am, so the poor mommy had to get up at 5am to prepare the bentos.

Made too much for the kids…

My kids did fuss a bit when we woke them up early, especially Isabelle. She didn’t even want to change! But then, she was happy again when I let her wear her favorite dress.

We rushed out of the house as early as possible, so the kids had to take their breakfast in the car. Luckily, we managed to reach there on time, and almost everyone arrived already, except the monks. The children were clueless about what’s going on, but I managed to snap some photos of them playing with each other, and I love it!

Playing… pushing…and laughing…

Oh gosh, mei mei, you see? Mommy’s taking photos of us. LOL!

The kids only managed to “sit through” the first 10 minutes of the praying ritual, and after that, they went out to sapu their bentos and play again. As long as they don’t disturb us, they could do whatever they wanted.

Err…what exactly are they saying huh, mommy?

The monks

After the prayers, we served the monks with some food. This is the first time I saw monks taking non-vegetarian meal.

Makan makan…

There were otak-otak, fish cake and chicken, which are non-vegetarian.

I thought that they will only take vegetarian food but SIL said the real monks will eat whatever we serve or donate. At the same time, we proceeded to the next ritual with a feng shui master, and there were more prayers.

Bai bai outside…

After that, we helped ourselves with the buffer while my kids had their bentos again in the office. Both of them wanted air-conditioning!

Frankly, everyone was quite tired when it’s over, and we headed back home shortly after. All of us headed to our beds for a good afternoon nap. It’s raining cats and dogs anyway, so it’s not a good day for outing…

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Hubby decided to bring the kids for a little picnic at the park yesterday. I quickly grabbed some food for them and there is nothing fancy about their bentos. However, they were looking forward to the picnic.

There is a big jogging track here, but we have never jogged here at the park! It’s too big for the kids, so we only walked for a distance most of the time. We found a bench by the lake and my kids started enjoying their bentos. On the other hand, I kept myself busy camwhoring all the time.

Makan makan first…

The happy boy…

And the girl who keeps eating…

And eating…

And eating…

After they had completed their bentos, they were ready for more snapshots and “exercising” at the park.

Now you see them… (the eyes la), now you don’t!

Mommy, ready, get set, go loh…Put your camera away la…

Wait…mommy got to snap the boy first…

Nah…I pose for you, mommy…

My kids like to play with the exercise equipments here. As usual, most people will ask us where we are from since we don’t speak Thai. They will always praise Justin and Isabelle “geng mak mak” (very clever in Thai) because they greet them with  “sawadee” very nicely with a bow. My kids love socializing with them and so does hubby. My Thai sucks, so I better keep quiet.

Let’s balance ourselves…

Swing, swing, swing,  swing…

I can do this!

Before leaving the park, we went for a run.

Justin loves running but Isabelle was too tired to keep up.

Seriously, it’s a tiring day for them as they have PE at school during the day, and then we went exercising again. I won’t need any diet pills if I’m so active everyday! But then, everyone had fun and……a good night sleep………….ZZzzz………..

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Lat Phrao is not too far from our house, it will only take about 30 minutes to reach there, but last Sunday, it took us more than 2 hours to get to Central Lat Phrao because we were lost in the streets again. LOL! The roads in Bangkok is soooooooo confusing….

The main reason why we were so determined to go there is………..

Ah Min jie jie is here in Bangkok.

We were meeting our neighbors from Ipoh! They came over for a few days for a “honeymoon”. They are so bold, they go around in Bangkok city just by MRT, and they managed to visit a few places as planned! They even visited the Grand Palace on Monday morning, but thank god they are OK.

After having lunch with them, we went shopping. Justin caught the glimpse of his favorite animal in the shopping complex…

Mommy, I found a horse!!! But fake one la…

Gosh, he is so attracted to horses!  But mommy didn’t mind following him along as I was attracted to SKII too. LOL! BTW, there was an audition for Thailand Supermodel at Sofitel, just besides Central. So, we saw so many super tall and pretty girls at the shopping complex too. Oh boy, I felt so short that day.

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This week is not so hectic for us, due to unforeseen circumstances. Hubby might no even visit any customers until next week, so we leave work early. This evening, we picked up the kids after school and headed to feed the catfish. The kids have been here once, but they are always eager to come here.

Justin likes it a lot!

He’s laughing all the time.

I know it looks “dangerous” but it’s ok la…They won’t jump in. LOL!

Isabelle likes it too, but she can’t throw the fish food far enough…

The catfishes might splash the water up and you might get wet. LOL!

Anyway, it’s fun to see the kids feeding the fishes, and then running away to avoid themselves from getting wet.

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Frankly, I’m pretty shocked this morning when I read the news about Bangkok in the state of emergency. I really can’t see any difference in our normal routine here, but maybe the condition is different in the city. I would be very worried if I stay in the city and I might be stocking up food and medical supplies, just in case. Who knows? I might even fly back home ASAP. LOL!

However, things are normal here over in my area, so don’t worry ok? But maybe we have to be more cautious and careful if we are going out now. For the time being, we are alright here.

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 We were very indecisive of where should go last Sunday. Everyone was so relax and Isabelle and I slept until 9.30am. LOL! We were just like pigs, lazying around and doing nothing much. But after breakfast, BIL gave us a call and ask if we would like to visit Dusit Zoo in Bangkok city, and both my kids were excited about it. They got ready in lightning speed and urged us out of the house ASAP. LOL!

The traffic was great that day, and in fact I like the street along Si Ayutthaya. Those trees reminded me of our streets in Penang!

Along Si Ayutthaya

The royal palace is just nearby but we didn’t stop by to have a look. However, we bumped into 2 royal cars, and those cars are nice!

Dusit Zoo is just somewhere around the corner, so it’s not too hard to find. The children were all seated in strollers, so we decided to have a nice walk in the zoo rather than using the mini train.

We don’t have to walk much!

The mini train

But of course, the kids got out from their strollers once in a while to get a closer look of the animals. Then hubby and I would have to push the empty strollers and from the look on hubby’s face, I knew that he must be thinking, “Why so mah fan want to take strollers around? Some more 2 strollers. No need to bring la.”

Mei mei, you see?

More shots taken at the zoo are…

Got tall tall girraffe leh…Where’s the zebra? (They were somewhere further away).

Mommy, this tiger is WHITE!

The white tiger

This zoo no real elephants wan, only fake ones…

But this fake dino is cute!

Must at least take one family photo wan…

After awhile, Isabelle was pretty bored. I think she’s sleepy, so she got grumpy. On the other hand, Justin was still excited to check out as many animals as he could. This little fella really likes animals and SIL joked that he might either be a vet or own a farm next time. LOL!

I love the zoo.

Mommy, why so long wan?

The evil mommy “bribed” the grumpy girl with junks….and…

…Ice-cream.

There’s a lake where you can have a ride on the peddle boats. We might try that next time as everyone was exhausted after the walk. So we went to Siam Paragon shortly after. Everyone’s yearning for AIR-CONDITIONING after spending an afternoon in the sun!

We go shopping again loh…

If mommy can find any one of those reno hotels, I would check in and take a nap. I was so tired! Nonetheless, a little shopping trip at the beauty hall can also do the same trick.

Bought beauty products again.

Ah….I need more whitening masks. LOL!

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After 10 days in Malaysia, we are back to Bangkok now. My kids started school this morning, and thank god, they didn’t cry. LOL! Isabelle had tears in her eyes, but she didn’t cry at all. We didn’t leave them there immediately, but talked to Justin’s English teacher for a while. My kids saw us here, but they didn’t fuss or cry for us.

My kids had a lot of fun back in Ipoh where they played and played with their cousins. They could totally ignore me until bedtime. LOL! As for me, I went for my facial, manicure, and pedicure all in a day when I was in Ipoh. I missed my pampering!!! It’s not that I can’t get these beauty services here, but I just don’t have the time for them. As long as my face is not rotting until I need some acne scars cream, I can let go of my usual pampering for a few months.

In short, both my kids are glad to be home. To them, the house in Bangkok is their home now. So, they are adapting pretty well after 2 months huh?

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I used to hang out with Lovely Mummy and Mummy in Vain when we stayed in Ipoh, we can really chit chat, makan and shop in a gang. Last Sunday, we met again at Starbucks, and our kids (except Marcus) almost turned the place upside down. LOL!

It’s hard to get a photo together!!! But ladies, at least u two look nice in this one, ok? LOL!

My two friends look great in their new hairstyle. Wait ya? I’m keeping my hair now and maybe next year I will perm mine too. LOL! Except Marcus, who’s more obedient, our kids were so noisy playing among themselves. I think my house will explode with their noises and laughters when the 2 families visit us in Bangkok!

We discussed about their agenda in Bangkok. All of us might be able to squeeze in my car, but we don’t have a driver! Hubby is quite reluctant to be away from work from Monday to Friday, and I can truly understand that. We have just started a new business, so things can be rather busy.

So, if hubby can’t join, I might not be joining them too because I can’t handle my kids alone in places like Safari World or Dream World. Can die wan la…

Anyway, let’s see how. Can easily get taxi but it’s not going to be fun if we can’t join their families on this trip. So, let’s see how hubby’s work schedule is arranged when we go back to Bangkok.

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