July 26 - Final Details in Bangkok
It's hard to believe that our time in Bangkok is finally coming to a close. When we first started talking about this trip, we knew that we needed to spend three weeks "to get our money's worth" for the plane tickets. Yet, we wondered what we would do for three weeks. We'd never spent that long away from home and in a different place. Today, as we were taking care of last minute errands, we had quite a list of things that hadn't been done.
We spent the morning with laundry and gathering up the things from throughout the apartment that had been separated from our room. Alan worked at getting the packing organized and begun. We knew we'd need the extra duffel bags to get our souvenir purchases home, but when it came down to getting them all together, there were some tense moments.
Alan went for another massage downstairs. A different woman did it this time, and her technique was somewhat different. She actually spent more time on the muscle groups that need stretching and on the back, which felt great. I wonder if niece Emily would consider taking some Thai Massage classes as a part of her physical therapy training. I felt like what I got from the massage therapists here was at least as helpful and probably much more helpful than what I found from physical therapy in the States. My therapist seemed to understand the muscle groups and their working quite well.
Alan and Joyce both went downtown one last time to handle some of those errands that had to wait until the last minute. We went to our old friend MBK, as well as Amarin Center and Central Department stores. There are so many other places we could have explored, but we knew those places well enough to get what we wanted without too much delay.
After returning home, we did more packing and then met Fred at a local Thai seafood restaurant. The food was very good, and the service was excellent. The English lacked a little bit, but the enthusiasm made up for it. Fred and Jane had suggested it for last night, but we elected to go Italian instead!
Upon our return to the apartment, Alan and Fred had a good heart-to-heart talk about life issues in the computer room while Joyce and Jane held forth in the living room. It was finally time to put the finishing touches on the packing, and now it's time to get a little sleep before our 3:30 am departure for the airport tomorrow morning. If things go well, we'll spend some of our long layover in Tokyo getting the blog updated for past days. Otherwise, the next post is likely to come from the United States, albeit Hawaii.
We spent the morning with laundry and gathering up the things from throughout the apartment that had been separated from our room. Alan worked at getting the packing organized and begun. We knew we'd need the extra duffel bags to get our souvenir purchases home, but when it came down to getting them all together, there were some tense moments.
Alan went for another massage downstairs. A different woman did it this time, and her technique was somewhat different. She actually spent more time on the muscle groups that need stretching and on the back, which felt great. I wonder if niece Emily would consider taking some Thai Massage classes as a part of her physical therapy training. I felt like what I got from the massage therapists here was at least as helpful and probably much more helpful than what I found from physical therapy in the States. My therapist seemed to understand the muscle groups and their working quite well.
Alan and Joyce both went downtown one last time to handle some of those errands that had to wait until the last minute. We went to our old friend MBK, as well as Amarin Center and Central Department stores. There are so many other places we could have explored, but we knew those places well enough to get what we wanted without too much delay.
After returning home, we did more packing and then met Fred at a local Thai seafood restaurant. The food was very good, and the service was excellent. The English lacked a little bit, but the enthusiasm made up for it. Fred and Jane had suggested it for last night, but we elected to go Italian instead!
Upon our return to the apartment, Alan and Fred had a good heart-to-heart talk about life issues in the computer room while Joyce and Jane held forth in the living room. It was finally time to put the finishing touches on the packing, and now it's time to get a little sleep before our 3:30 am departure for the airport tomorrow morning. If things go well, we'll spend some of our long layover in Tokyo getting the blog updated for past days. Otherwise, the next post is likely to come from the United States, albeit Hawaii.
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