As Remi mentioned, he and I were incredibly lazy in Bangkok. It was great!

Mom and Dad however… well, they basically hit all of the big sites, including:

The Grand Palace - with both demon and monkey guardians

Prang/Grand Palace
Demon Neil
Monkey Donna

Wat Arun - the Temple of Dawn

Spires of Wat Arun

Wat Pho - the Temple of the Reclining Buddha (and its temple mascot - a kitty eating rice)

Reclining Buddha
Temple Mascot

Dusit Palace

Dusit Palace

Vimanmek Mansion

Vimanmek Mansion

Red Teak House

Red Teak House

There are more pictures of all of these places in the gallery.

They also went to the Bangkok National Museum, where they learned that Ganesha is the god of knowledge. And in order to ensure that knowledge survives, he seeks out and destroys ignorance - hence the skulls on the bottom of his throne.

Kill Ignorance

What a great god! :)

While Mom and Dad were sight-seeing, Remi and I shopped, relaxed, watched James Bond movies (which were on all the time), and basically just hung out.

Mom and I worked fittings into our schedule, as we both got a bunch of clothes made at King’s International Tailors on Kaosarn Road - from Papa Jim.

Papa Jim

Mom and I also inspected various food vendors, although I only bought mango and sticky rice (mmmm!), not the other… delicacies.

Angela's Favourite Dessert
Protein Diet
Leap Frog

Mom did manage to get friendly with Ronald though. She really likes fast food iconic statues.

High-5
Thai Ronald

Bright and early Sunday morning, we all got up, grabbed our luggage (with the addition of a couple of bags and boxes from all the stuff we had purchased), and caught our flights back to Canada. That was the end of our latest family adventure.

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