Kelly! Hooray!



As Bella wrote, we met up with our old friend Kelly, a Children's Theater compatriot from Yale. Before we got there, we stopped by the Bangkok flower market to buy her some flowers (the white orchids in the photo). The market overflowed with roses, orchids, and lotus flowers as well as the usual street foods (including fried grasshoppers and beetles). What we'd planned as a 30 minute excursion morphed into a 2 hour trek -- we walked through the market a few times, then along the river, to and through Chinatown, to the subway, then to Kelly's place in Sukhumvit. The subway, by the way, has got to be the cleanest most modern underground of any city I've visited.

Marvelous to see Kelly -- I was worried I might not recognize her after nearly 10 years. But she looks the same, and Bella and I lingered in her apartment until after midnight chatting about where we've been and what we've done, the whereabouts and goings-on of friends and acquaintances, and Thai and US politics. We're meeting her tonight again for dinner and drinks. Fun!