Christmas in Thailand

Hello all! My goodness we have neglected our blog. I hope to catch it up in one entry - wish me luck :)

Ayutthaya for the Holidays

Day One

We got ourselves a room at U.P. Guesthouse (which is where we stayed the first time). The place was just as we remembered it - clean, cheap and with hot water (woo hoo). We did nothing at all except walk around the town in search of deodorant (we finally stumbled on a shopping centre) and hang around playing cards. For dinner we went back to Kwan's Cafe and had a kick-ass night. There was nobody around so Paul and I pretty much had the place to ourselves. Kwan remembered us from a month ago especially when Paul reminded her of the killer Mai Thai that she made me last time - they were just as killer this time. We ended up spending the night with Kwan and her family eating, drinking and listening the music of our choice. We had staring contests with her daughter and tried to brush up on our Thai (unfortunately the Chang and Mai Thais had kicked in at this point). We headed to bed after shutting the place down (sounds better then it was - we were asleep by midnight).

Day Two

We got ourselves up bright and early to call my family and wish them a Merry Christmas. They were all at my Oma's house so we managed to talk to everyone with one phone call. It was so nice to hear everyone's voices. Once again we spent the day doing NOTHING - it was brilliant. We booked a river cruise for the early evening and had the boat all to ourselves. We stopped at three temples and spent the rest of the two hours cruising around the river. It was really nice and peaceful. One of the temples we had visited during our first trip to Ayutthaya a month ago but the other two were new to us which was nice. One had the largest bronze Buddha we have seen yet (and that is saying a lot) and the other had a reclining Buddha which was cool.

We had dinner at our guesthouse. They put on a Christmas buffet for the guests and ate tons of curry, egg rolls and Paul had chicken wings (he was in heaven). Afterwards we called Paul's family and had a great chat with them (we're still sorry for waking you up). We also made a surprise call to Adam in Ottawa who was half way through his stocking. We called it an early night to prepare for our travels to Kanchanaburi.

Side Note:

We have to met some people for dinner so we will write about the past few days in Kanchanaburi tomorrow - keep you all in suspense!