Day Five

Nelly's first shoes!...




the Family Norton

Think this is probably the first picture we have as a family the guide took it this morning when we went to the temple, lots of incense, people putting fruit nuts and flowers on the altar to the three enormous Buddhas. Today was the birthday of the Buddha so lots of people there.

Today was quite quiet - some other UK families arrived last night - so really nice to see familiar faces, we had lunch in the park and two other families joined us - sharing stories and letting the girls introduce themselves. We had had a bit of a disaster that afternoon - Nelly on the way to the mini supermarket to pick up some more baby wipes had dropped her dummy - we searched for ages...all around the shelves in the shelves, we retraced our steps twice, no luck,. So we decided that she could use the one that we had brought out with us( she had tried it earlier this morning and thought it was OK!!!) BIG MISTAKE once the dummy that arrived with her from the SWI ha gone she was accepting nothing less! we had her photos taken for the visa and then I spent ten minutes on my hands and knees looking under freezer units and shelf systems back at the same supermarket! Our hearts had sunk and by this stage we were getting grouchy with each other as she was gettin more grouchy from lack of dummy...also both feeling that this could be a major set back in the SLEEPING department...so having found nothing in the supermarket on the second visit - we walked back to the hotel and Rob suddenly started shouting THERE IT IS!!!!!! and ran across the road and dived under an black Audi! came out with said dummy /......so all is back on track, she is happy, we are happy everyone is lovely!!! PHEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

oh well another story for the day - now we need to decude what to do for the next five days - Shopping perhaps!

apart form that we gave the Americans a run for their money in the local Thai restaurant this evening when 4 UK families with two children and 4 babies turned up !

New News - we also bought the poor child a pair of shoes...for the grand sum of £2



New Shoes - Two pounds...




Miss Busy






Trip to the Banyan Tree Temple - Buddhas Birthday ...








Daddy Day with Nelly



all change....