We are in Thailand!

We have internet connection here at the hotel, which we just have to pay for, so I will try to write some short updates, while we are here, but do not think we will have it in Chang Mai, from Sunday, unless we go to internet cafes.

We’re here! After a very long twenty five hours total of traveling (which included our door to door and layovers) we arrived, hot, sweaty and exhausted, at our hotel in Bangkok.

The kids had not settled down nearly as early as we would have liked, being far too excited and way too overtired, but they did finally crash - Bryttain at 12:38am(!) and Arran, sometime after 1am, slouched over in those torturous airline seats. They really did so great on the whole, but it is such hard work to travel with little ones, especially when one does not have her own seat!

Asia has been a huge hit, everywhere we have been. Our little chub though, has been throwing people with her rather large belly, people must think she is malnourished, I assume, as every time she would cry, someone would want to feed her! Snacks, candy...she would cry and the Asian moms (who were obviously much better prepared than I) would reach into their bags and produce one goody or another. Or maybe, they just wanted to shut her up as she was so freaking loud and they need to be able to sleep.

This morning at breakfast time people were flocking to her. Never mind that we were trying to eat, they all just kept taking turns to come and talk to her, pat her cheeks, touch her hands...seriously, just at breakfast time around thirty people did this. Arran’s theory is that she must be the only baby in Thailand, whereas I have come to the conclusion that the people here see her belly and she reminds them of a little Buddha or something! (Yes, I am kidding, the Thais apparently just love babies) I just had not realized that it would be quite to this extreme.

We are currently battling the jetlag full force. We finally got to our hotel room at 2pm yesterday afternoon (middle of the night back home) and all took naps, but then we forced ourselves to get up after three hours (four for the kids) and then went back to bed at 11:30pm. The kids were up this morning by 5am and we went down for breakfast at 6:15am, then spent some time in the pool, which the kids had been dying to do since last night. By 10:30am, as I type this, it feels like it should be late afternoon and we now have a whole day ahead of us.