Bangkok Week 856 — Mika's Photos

Loy Krathong - one of our bigger annual festivals - is here! Celebrated on the full moon night of the twelfth month of the Thai lunar calendar, the kids (and adults too, I suppose) wear traditional Thai dress and make floral krathong to float on the river (or other waterways). Fun for all!

We also celebrated our favorite year-end tradition: the Piñata 🪅 party hosted by friends Ronan & Carson (and their parents).

Then Mum dashed off to London, and Dad heroically held down the fort for the rest of the week.

Happy Songkran!

The school is all prepared with a morning full of activities for the students.

Arlo is hard at work making a banana leaf propeller boat.

Comparing boats with Martin.

Watching the propeller boats go!

Meanwhile, Lucy is painting with banana leaf stems.

And making a quick diversion to the monkey bars to show how strong she is.

Supervising Lamar while she makes som tum.

Then Arlo joined Teacher Selly to decorate a traditional fish.

Lucy too!

Another minor distraction.

The main attraction: making a krathong.

Lucy with some professional assistance.

Posing with her first-ever Krathong.

Now off to float it, with some guidance from P'Mali.

Here comes Arlo with his. (Actually, this might have been his 3rd.)

Off it goes!

Lucy had an enjoyable time on Arlo's side, but ended up missing all the activities on the Nursery side.

Bye, Lucy! Have a good Loy Krathong day at school!

Arlo got a new turn table for his train tracks, which he's excited about!

Saturday morning pillow crashing.

Lucy playing train and demonstrating her flexibility at the same time.

It's the first time Arlo's joining his designated swimming lesson in several weeks.

And after battling the traffic, here we are at Ronan & Carson's annual pinata fiesta.

Arlo's waiting in anticipation.

He's much better this year than in previous years!

Much stronger... and didn't end up hurling the stick this year either.

They had massage chairs set up for the adults.

Lucy just made herself part of the big girls' group.

We mark the passage of years by the photos on this play structure.

This year, both of them are much more adventurous.

Lucy would've happily climbed to the top if she could figure out how.

Mum's turn!

And playing with Sally, one of his longest friends.

This condo has gotten a great new playground since we were last here!

One final set of swings before heading home. It's almost dark!

A lazy Sunday, after a long and busy Saturday.

Arlo ran home to get a broom to help sweep up the leaves at the playground.

Swinging together nicely.

At a make-up lesson. But the rain is so heavy and loud in the pool area that you can't hear anything. So we're waiting in the front.

Meanwhile, Arlo & Dad get some Rhino Hero under their belts.

Arlo has a make-up lesson with technically-focused Teacher JP again.

(Very subtly) eavesdropping on Teacher JA's class.

With a burst of creativity, Arlo came home and drew...

... a very detailed "Jumping Tank".

Inventorying (and opening) our entire bandaid collection.

Starting a new week of school, while Mum is off to London.

Lucy, whose clothes are you wearing? (She went through all her outfits at school today.)

Playing his new game, "Genius Square". (I love it!)

We learned about this game at the Toy Museum in Tokyo.

Some after-nap wrestling.

Time to kill before school, so hanging out in the back.

Arlo still likes football.

Waiting patiently for her turn on the swing.

Hiding in the tree house.

The boy gang; just missing one member.

The tree is up at Lucy's school! Christmastime is here!

Uh oh! Where is Lucy?

There she is!

Celebrating 2 years and 8 months today.

This monkey enjoys climbing over her seat into the front now, to play.

What are these natural-looking bananas?

They're banana bread with a chocolate topping. What's not to like?

Mr. Train engineer.

Uh oh! Lucy bonked the back of her head.

What a stylish way to recover.