Bangkok Birthday Bonanza
(Bangkok, Thailand)
Today is Zach's 32nd birthday, and we are celebrating in style in Bangkok. We finally managed to leave our scuba paradise on Koh Tao yesterday, with our advanced diver certifications in hand (not to mention fantastic memories of sharks, night diving, and unsettlingly good spaghetti bolognaise at an Australian pub called "Choppers")... We abandoned our Malaysian rainforest plans to return to Bangkok (Thailand is a hard country to leave--Thea warned me, but it's even more difficult than we imagined). On the 30th or 31st, we are off to meet my aunt, uncle, and cousin Deval in Angkor Wat (Cambodia), where they are conveniently vacationing from England (Mona, we miss you!).
In the meantime, we are excited to hang out with our old friend Kelly from children's theater, who's been living in Bangkok for a while and is feeding us wine and cheesecake tonight. We've spent the day wandering the neighborhood around our awesome guesthouse, checking out the national library (free internet, newspapers, and A/C--very nice for lounging, and we found many people taking naps in the comfy Barcelona chairs), the largest teak building in the world (72 rooms, held together entirely by wood pegs, former palace of King Rama V, complete with a real live crocodile in the moat), the old parliament building, and the river. We've also been sampling lots of the local street food, which is copious, cheap, and delicious. Tonight, we're going to splurge (courtesy of Gregg Grinspan) on a fabulous sushi dinner, and then go kick it with Kelly.
Life is good.
(aside from Zach -- one of the reasons I love Bella is that she uses the Oxfordian comma. Good grammar makes a good marriage.)
(Bangkok, Thailand)
Today is Zach's 32nd birthday, and we are celebrating in style in Bangkok. We finally managed to leave our scuba paradise on Koh Tao yesterday, with our advanced diver certifications in hand (not to mention fantastic memories of sharks, night diving, and unsettlingly good spaghetti bolognaise at an Australian pub called "Choppers")... We abandoned our Malaysian rainforest plans to return to Bangkok (Thailand is a hard country to leave--Thea warned me, but it's even more difficult than we imagined). On the 30th or 31st, we are off to meet my aunt, uncle, and cousin Deval in Angkor Wat (Cambodia), where they are conveniently vacationing from England (Mona, we miss you!).
In the meantime, we are excited to hang out with our old friend Kelly from children's theater, who's been living in Bangkok for a while and is feeding us wine and cheesecake tonight. We've spent the day wandering the neighborhood around our awesome guesthouse, checking out the national library (free internet, newspapers, and A/C--very nice for lounging, and we found many people taking naps in the comfy Barcelona chairs), the largest teak building in the world (72 rooms, held together entirely by wood pegs, former palace of King Rama V, complete with a real live crocodile in the moat), the old parliament building, and the river. We've also been sampling lots of the local street food, which is copious, cheap, and delicious. Tonight, we're going to splurge (courtesy of Gregg Grinspan) on a fabulous sushi dinner, and then go kick it with Kelly.
Life is good.
(aside from Zach -- one of the reasons I love Bella is that she uses the Oxfordian comma. Good grammar makes a good marriage.)
posted by backandzella at 4:42 AM
2 Comments:
I had never heard of the "Oxford" comma so I did some digging, and it is synonymous with what I had known as the "serial comma" (not to be confused with the "Cereal comma," which is a small break between bites of Apple Jacks).
Happy B-day Zacko! ("B-day," here used as a shortened version of "birthday," should not be confused with "Bee-day," which is more regularly associated with one of two popular variations: (1) a day spent at a spelling bee, or (2) a day spent investigating bees, which almost always ends up with your friend's mother creating some concoction of Arm n'Hammer baking soda and water and placing it on any unfortunate stings ... or so I've heard. Hey Zach, why does that work?).
- Dougie
Huh. All these years and I never realized that Zach and Corie share the same birthday.
Still jealous... :)
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