October was about Turkey and Birthday’s! Matty celebrated a late birthday party because we were in Thailand during his actually birthday. A friend Aisha had a Dr. Who Weeping Angel party and the PDO Club Canadian Section, which I am treasurer of, organized a Canadian Thanksgiving dinner for about 150 people.
Well our return was a little painful… I lost my cell phone the first night during the fiasco called checking in with 9 people, 20 bags and language barriers. We did visit one of the many Buddhist temples, wandered through markets and the girls got spa stuff done while boys enjoyed a peaceful garden with…
We left Toscana Valley piled into the back of a pickup truck and wound our way through the national park. It was a great day of waterfalls, snakes, deer, traditional food and monkey’s.
We had a late afternoon taxi ride to our next hotel from Ayutthaya and we ended up in a semi-surreal place…
Our destination by boat was a Ayutthaya, famous for its temples and the former center of power for Thailand until the Burmese destroyed in the 1600s. Our hotel had great food, there were elephant rides, ice cream and ruins – the highlight for the kids (nope).