Category: Travel

Today is Loi Krathong in Thailand.  Loi Krathong is a festival celebrated mainly in Thailand and Laos paying respect to water spirits.  The event is meant to thank the spirits for allowing our use of the water and to apologize for polluting the water.  Individuals pay their respects to the spirits by floating a small…

Last day of “vacation”!  Today we went to Gardens on the Bay and took a river boat cruise along the Singapore River to Clarke Quay for dinner.

Chad had to go to some briefings today.  So,  Sam, Jack and I were on our own until early evening.  We decided to go to the Singapore Zoo.  I am really over seeing animals…but the boys are not–Sam insisted on seeing everything twice.

We departed Chiang Mai mid-morning and arrived in Singapore early afternoon.  We changed time zones…and… we also changed languages! Back to English!  The boys did a great job on the 3-hour flight, although, Jack did switch between watching “Yo Gabba Gabba” and playing with some blocks about one thousand times during the short time we…

The people at Baan Chang sent along photos take during our recent trip to the elephant farm.  

Day four in Chiang Mai was spent out and about ALL day.

This morning we slept in, worked out, and generally took it easy to let the boys recover from the train ride and their crazy elephant adventure at Baan Chang yesterday.  Around noon we pulled it together to start our bicycle tour.  The tour was a four hour ride through southern Chiang Mai city.

The Summervilles are in Chiang Mai for seven days (then on to Singapore).  Chiang Mai is the largest city in northern Thailand and by some measures the second largest city in all of Thailand (the largest being Bangkok, of course).  Chiang Mai is located in Chiang Mai Province near the Burmese border.  Northern Thailand is…