Thailand

Silver Seas Cruise 

Fun in the sun...

Outdoor breakfast on our cruise

Formal night - poor Jeff

Fabulous people we met on ship:

Mark and Ann- Coincidentally they live in our neighborhood in Las Vegas

Cheryl & Anne - Bali (Island in Indonesia)

Anne, Cheryl and  Prasanth (South Africa)

Luis & Marcia - Tennessee 

Lady from China

Karen, Houston Texas 

Our Butlers

Our Favorite Waiter - Reggie

Favorite Thai Dessert- Sticky Rice with Mango 

The proper way to say "Hello" in Thailand is:

The higher your hands mean more respect to whom you are saying hello. 

Interesting information about Thailand 

• Population of Bangkok is 12 million 

• minimum wage of Bangkok is $10 dollars per day

• Odd numbers are considered lucky 🍀 numbers. 

• Thai people believe in ghosts. Most Thai people have a spirit home on property. No one lives in spirit home except for ghosts. Ever morning they bring a bowl of rice to the spirit home

• Thai people do not eat sweets, their sweets is fruit. This is how they stay so thin. 

• Thai language is tonal language. For instants:

In a flat tone-Maa means Mother 

In a high tone- Maa means horse

In a rising tone - Maa means dog

(Tamara, Tam2 and Hillary be careful how you prounounce Maa)

• Thai has only 5 possible consonant

Endings t,p,k,n, ng 

• English has hundreds of consonant clusters. Examples 

Sixths- k-s-th-s

• Thai has problems with "r" & "l"

I rub you = I love you

I eat lice = I eat rice

• Dee in Thai means good

• Krap and Kha means man

• Dichan and Phom means women

Ko Samui, Thailand

Thailand's third largest island in the Gulf of Thailand. In the Elephant show, There are 60 female elephants they use for the elephant rides. When they are not working they are in the forest. They only sleep 3-4 hours per day. 

Each elephant is purchased for Show and cost 300k approximately 

Elephant Ride - our elephant is 30 years old. She was awesome 

I was the brave lucky one to be chosen for the show performance with 2 young female elephants ages 7 & 9. Unbelievable - the video wouldn't download on my blog will send separately when I get home. 

Taking a tip from Jefff

Monkey 🐒 Show

Push ups. 

Monkeys are used to pick coconuts. One monkey can pick 800-1,000 per day. They are so fast. 

Hair therapy 

Big Budda statue at Wat Phra Yao Temple

Monkey worshipping the elephants and the goddess

Bangkok, Thailand 

Bangkok also known as City of Angels and Venice of the East thrills with energy. 

Dress up time 

Grand Palace

Buddha 

The King's body is still at the Grand Temple. His body is embommed but will lay to rest for 10 months before is buried. Thousands of people line up daily to honor the deceased king. 

Another beautiful Temple

Shopping at discount mails: couldn't do it very overwhelming. Ten floors of massive stuff. Walked away with nothing. 

Oh well. 

The famous movie King and I is banned from Thailand. The reason it is banned the Thai people are very loyal to their King. There is parts of the movie that it is false and critical to Thailand. 

Jeff and I had a wonderful time in Thailand. This is the first blog of four. I will be sending other blogs for Hong Kong, Vietnam and getting ready to explore Singapore. I hope you enjoy the 1st of many Blogs I will be sending. 

Love and Miss Everyone