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Favorite toppings?  Check the one on the right.  Corn.  That will raise some American eyebrows in surprise!  It IS a favorite here. 

Waiting on the Skytrain

How many massage parlors can you see on this soi (sidestreet)?  Double click on any photo in the blog to enlarge it.

Here comes the Skytrain!

I have a new favorite food.  Last weekend, on our team outing, I had this for the first time.  Gang som goong kai cha-om.  Orange soup with prawns, egg, and cha-om (a type of vegetable here).  It is a hot and sour soup, very spicy.  It has a tomato flavor, although there are no tomatoes in it.  The squares are a sort of omelet with cha-om mixed in, cut into squares. 

Absolutely delicious!

TRAC Gang Does Amphawa

The TRAC team put together a great weekend getaway to Amphawa, a famous area southwest of Bangkok along the Mae Klong River.  A peaceful little resort, and some fun acitvities...  a great and memorable weekend...

Amphawa is a very pretty place.  More so when you bring along lovely young ladies like this!

Yes, I think we had fun!

A river cruise to the famous Amphawa market.

They said the crowds were down because there was a brief rainshower just as we arrived.  I can not imagine what it is like when it is crowded!

The canals were full of shoppers!

After an evening of shopping, we returned to the resort.  Some of us (no me!) stayed up almost all night playing games and laughing....

While some play a version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire, Hope and X squared off to play video futball (soccer). 

Hope pays for his late night the next morning.

At 6:30 a.m., the team members gave alms to monks who floated by in boats.

We visited Baan Kae Noi (spelling may be wrong), a local temple.

The temple was full of intricate wood carvings...

...and had a beautiful fountain.

Famous characters from a Thai novel at the national park established to honor

King Rama II.

A little dip in the river to finish off our activities.

It was hot, so the swimmers got to cool off.

A bowl of noodles (actually 104 bowls) and we were off for Bangkok again!  This is Eam, her husband and son.

Good eating at Amphawa!

We started our trip at a famus noodle shop near Vicotry Monument.

 Getting a good start.

 I do love noodles!  We all do!

X shows the damage.  Sixteen of us at one hundred sixteen bowls.  That is not a typo!  The bowls were small, but still.  Oh my! (I only had three.)

Dinner Saturday at the resort.  Mmmm... fresh fish.

Real chicken wings!

This soup is so good I can not explain.  It was the first time I ever tasted it and it was incredible... spicy, a tomato flavor, with shrimp...  wow.

Lunch today was... noodles!  This time from a noodle vendor on a boat who pulled up to us and started making bowl after bowl.  Here, I am about to wolf down a glob of congealed blood... a standard ingredient in most Thai noodles.  A bit like liver.

At the top of the bowl, you can see another clump of congealed blood.

Thai desserts are unusual to Westerners.  This is a type of jello-like chunks, made warm, but swimming in a bowl of sweet liquid and ice.  Yummy!

We kept the lady in the noodle boat busy for a long time.

We must not have been so hungry.  Only one hundred four bowls this time!

More flowers

On my trip to KC, some of the ladies requested more flower photos.  These are from this weeks' trip to Amphawa.  Enjoy!

Sert Has Talent

Prasert, one of the most beloved members of my team at work, represented us tonight in DSTWS Has Talent, a musical talent contest.  The whole team was behind him!

Ready to cheer on Super Sert

Sert singing his song

Given chains and money by his fans!

The crowd loves it!

Second place in the contest.  First place in our hearts.

The team shows its pride in Super Sert!

Universal Studios - Singapore 2011

Laid out like New York City.

 Galactica, you spend half the ride upside down.  Good times!

Standing in front of a 'merlion' something like a mermaid with bigger teeth.

I wish I had gotten this whole thing in photos.  After leaving the theme park, Rerk was hungry so he got a turkey hot dog and fries and we sat at a table while he ate.  Before he could get started a monkey jumped on the table and grabbed the hot dog and scampered off.  The monkey kept the bun and ate it, but dropped the dog.  No reason to fear wastage... a peacock came up and snagged the hot dog!