Yesterday the blog instructions were in Thai. Today they're in English. Go figure. And today I could upload photos, so here are the Buddhas, elephant and gals from yesterday.

Had two successful, interesting interviews today. One professional talked about how the floods in Bangkok affected his life about six months ago. He and his wife had just had their first baby and their house flooded, so they had to relocate outside the city for a while. Can't imagine. Adorable baby picture with hair sticking straight up "like a tomahawk" he said. :-)

I jinxed myself yesterday by saying we'd been feeling fine. Today, not so fine. No idea what got me. After the interviews we came back to the hotel. Lynne worked like a good girl and I laid around. But still going out tonight to meet Jamie McDermott (relative of Kelly Holmes'). She's taking us to a place called Cabbages & Condoms. I am not making that up. I don't think I'll eat but we'll see how I feel in a few more hours. They have a gift shop of hand-crafted items so more shopping for us!

Hoping we don't have any issues getting there. The King's sister's funeral is today and about 15 streets are closed down and it's a holiday for most people (not B&V professionals unless they took a vacation day). She was cremated several months back but the ceremony is today. They plan to burn the ashes. The king and his wife will be there but rumor is they don't get along. He's in he's 90s. Big ceremonial parade today, including  a royal chariot on an hour and half procession. Took 216 men to pull the chariot. Wish we could have seen it.

Big, big thanks to Bethany and her family for taking care of Bella while I'm gone. She's told me Bella and her dog Max (90 pounder) are getting along and like to play tetherball. Hopefully Bethany's telling the truth and Bella is behaving! I owe you BIG!!