My Sister's Visit
As you know, my sister Lucie visited me for 2 weeks during the Songkran holidays. It was wonderful to see her. If you know the Matthews family at all you will know what we got up to for most of our days - lots of giggling and numerous games!
We had a great trip up to Kanchanaburi and spent a few days on the River Kwai. This is one of my favourite places in all the world. The peace of the river, Mon workers, oil lamps lighting the evenings, elephants to ride and a river to swim in. Unfortunately our friend Dan was ill throughout this trip but he soon bounced back and is off in Chiang Mai with Hayden as I type this article :)
My sister and I then headed to a beach on Koh Samet island. It is only a few hours from Bangkok and is so beautiful. We found a tiny little beach with a handful of people there. With the white sands and clear blue sea it was totally gorgeous. We spent our first day on the beach, swimming in the sea and enjoying the heat, nearly 40 degrees celcius. I, however, have lived in Thailand for 2 years but have never gone lying on a beach for any length of time. We both soon discovered that our fair skin was not up to the challenge of surviving the Thai sun and both ended up with very entertaining sunburn lines :) Apparently I looked like I had red stockings on!
Possibly the most laughing was done during our trips to the Karaoke booths. Thailand is full of them! Basically you pay some money and shut yourselves in one of the many booths which has a sofa, TV and 2 microphones. They are meant to be sound proof but I assure you they are not. We sang a whole list of hilarious songs - it is meant to be amusing surely?? The Thai people sit very seriously in these booths singing, not laughing! I couldn't comprehend how they did it without laughter, especially when you are singing the soppiest love songs ever like, Especially For You, or Whitney Huston and Mariah Carey classics!!! It was hilarious, I must have lost a few pounds from all the laughing on those days!
As you can imagine, the last few days of her time here were spent applying lots of Aloe Vera and lying in front of the fan but we had a wonderful time and I really needed some holiday time. If anyone else is keen to visit you are always welcome, just send us an email and we'll get you here in no time :)
We had a great trip up to Kanchanaburi and spent a few days on the River Kwai. This is one of my favourite places in all the world. The peace of the river, Mon workers, oil lamps lighting the evenings, elephants to ride and a river to swim in. Unfortunately our friend Dan was ill throughout this trip but he soon bounced back and is off in Chiang Mai with Hayden as I type this article :)
My sister and I then headed to a beach on Koh Samet island. It is only a few hours from Bangkok and is so beautiful. We found a tiny little beach with a handful of people there. With the white sands and clear blue sea it was totally gorgeous. We spent our first day on the beach, swimming in the sea and enjoying the heat, nearly 40 degrees celcius. I, however, have lived in Thailand for 2 years but have never gone lying on a beach for any length of time. We both soon discovered that our fair skin was not up to the challenge of surviving the Thai sun and both ended up with very entertaining sunburn lines :) Apparently I looked like I had red stockings on!
Possibly the most laughing was done during our trips to the Karaoke booths. Thailand is full of them! Basically you pay some money and shut yourselves in one of the many booths which has a sofa, TV and 2 microphones. They are meant to be sound proof but I assure you they are not. We sang a whole list of hilarious songs - it is meant to be amusing surely?? The Thai people sit very seriously in these booths singing, not laughing! I couldn't comprehend how they did it without laughter, especially when you are singing the soppiest love songs ever like, Especially For You, or Whitney Huston and Mariah Carey classics!!! It was hilarious, I must have lost a few pounds from all the laughing on those days!
As you can imagine, the last few days of her time here were spent applying lots of Aloe Vera and lying in front of the fan but we had a wonderful time and I really needed some holiday time. If anyone else is keen to visit you are always welcome, just send us an email and we'll get you here in no time :)
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