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We flew out last Tuesday night just after midnight (ok, technically Wednesday morning), and arrived on Thursday afternoon in Bangkok after a day of travel and a 14-hour time zone difference. To say we were all kind of messed up and tired would be an understatement. We’ve been here a week and finally had our first couple of nights of “normal” (ish– more on that later) sleep this week.
So, we ended up getting into our AirBnB around 3 PM. Needed to wait around a short bit while the cleaners finished up, but we all just kind of crashed on the couch while waiting. I think we went to bed around 5 PM that night. Honestly, it’s a bit of a blur. Our AirBnB is enormous– has 5 queen sized beds, all of them with the softness of plywood. We are going to see what we can do about getting a thicker foam mattress topper today– I bought one on our first night here, but it’s like sleeping on 1″ of thin foam on top of plywood– not much better.
We lost several days to jet lag and are finally starting to get our feet under us. We’re in no rush, really, so we haven’t been pushing ourselves to adapt to the new time zone very quickly. To be honest, I kind of dread going to bed because the bed is so hard and difficult to sleep. I’m getting sleep deprived, cranky, and my pain levels are no lower than a 4 pretty much all the time right now.
Before this trip, everyone said “post lots of pictures,” so here’s my photo dump from week 1 of our journey! We’ve had a spa and massage day, hit up a bookstore, and eaten quite a lot of delicious food from various cuisines. I visited a “knit shop,” which was pretty dirty (pollution is a big problem in Bangkok) and discovered that one of the bags of yarn/thread had bugs in it (eeeewww), and most was acrylic or polyester, even the crochet thread. They did carry a bunch of tatting thread, so I bought some which is currently in quarantine in the freezer here because I want to avoid a possible contamination. Also on that same excursion (I went alone), I found some absolutely gorgeous Japanese silk fabric and bought a yard to make a shirt out of. I’ll post results eventually– the fabric is also in the freezer for the moment. I’m hoping to hit a less dirty yarn shop here next week, as well as a gaming store.
Current travel crafting project is a crocheted parasol called the Hypnosis Parasol, which I picked back up after hibernating it for 2+ years, to bring with me on this trip. I did have to frog back a few rounds due to errors that I was finally able to find and fix. It’s coming along, albeit maybe a little slowly.
Everyone said “take lots of pictures,” so you get a photo dump of pics from my camera in gallery form. View the alt text to get commentary and descriptions.
We have not made it to the Grand Palace (that’s tomorrow), but John and Suzanne took a boat ride yesterday past several landmarks, including the palace.
