Nora’s Bangkok Gallery

Nora took along her iPod touch with a camera during the Kid’s Club activities and snapped some photos.    483 photos to be exact.  Many prominently features a finger or two over the lens and there were extended photo studies of pant legs and what was probably the inside of a pocket.    I pulled out a few to post here…

Bangkok Trip April 2014

Earlier this month we took a trip to Bangkok for the NESA Spring Educators  conference.  Crystal and Ben were mostly booked with the conference but we did have a couple of free evenings to take in some attractions.   During the day the kids participated in Kid’s Club where a tour group took them out to different venues each day which they enjoyed even though it was pretty much the same itinerary as last year.

Wat Arun

This is the last set of pictures from the Bangkok trip.  On our last day the confererence ended early afternoon and so we had a long-tail boat already reserved and waiting for us.  We took the klong (canal) tour through Bangkok and included a stop a Wat Arun – The Temple of the Dawn.   The boat dropped us at a heaving crowded pier and went back out in the river to wait for us.

This time the upper reaches of the Temple were open to tourists.  There were two upper levels – the first was reached by a very steep set of steps – the second even steeper (almost a ladder).   Ben took Kai and Nora up and the views were spectacular.   Going up was easy, of course, coming down was another story.   Kai just went down with no problem but Nora froze up a bit and needed a spotter for the way down.    Adventure.

Wat Pho – The Reclining Buddha

On our free afternoon we took the kids out to explore Bangkok a little bit.   Crystal and I have seen many of the sights but for Kai and Nora the last time they went through these places was in a baby sling.   It turned out the day was hot – temps climbed over 100 and the humidity was thick.

Our goal was to visit Wat Pho – the Temple of the Reclining Buddha and maybe the Grand Palace as well.   The traffic in Bangkok has not improved and much of the afternoon was spend in a cab traveling just a few miles though being air conditioned it was not that bad a place to spend time.  Also, slow ride through Bangkok – including Chinatown was in a way its own tourist attraction.    It turned out that the Grand Palace let in the last tour group at 3:30 so we didn’t make it in time for that one but we did reach Wat Pho.

More Bangkok

Here is the second round of pictures from Bangkok.  Enjoy!

Bangkok

Here is the first set of pictures from Bangkok now that I’ve got them all downloaded off the phone.   I didn’t take along our big camera on this trip in the interest of traveling light – all images were take with an iPhone.

Ben from Bangkok

After 6 days in Bangkok I’m ready to come home. It has been an excellent conference but the last two weeks has had me away from home enough.   The picture to the left is a panorama shot from my hotel room window at the Royal Orchid Sheraton.

Below are some pictures of Webster that I took shortly before I left.  I’m looking forward to seeing the little guy!

Bangkok

We just got back from a trip to Bangkok and I managed to snap a few pictures.  The reason for the trip was the NESA Spring Educators Conference but we did manage a couple of side trips.Â