Bird

Hi,
Welcome back to the life. We had quite a weekend. Saturday we went to a part of the market we keep passing. There's a store we've named the 'everything store', and we we found everything we were looking for. (5) We then went around the corner to the vegetable market for a few things. You gotta see the pic of the string beans. About 2 feet long. Then it was flowers for the house. A nice bit of shopping. From there we went to a section of town where we were to experience the 'parking monitor'. There are people in one district, who approach you as you park, put a slip on your car and collect 4 Baht. That's about $.13 US. When we returned to the truck, he helped us back out into the traffic. It's like he's the parking attendant for the block.
Oh, Boot's back. We had a happy reunion this morning. She felt great and was ready to dive into work. We are very glad she's back. The house looks bright again, clothes are on the line and we're having delicious ginger fish for dinner.
I guess a bunch of you were humming the song this weekend. If you missed it, it was "Fun, Fun, Fun" by The Beach Boys. Oh, and the car was a T-Bird. (Duh) Lane sent us an interesting background: The song, written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love was about Shirley England, the daughter of the owner of radio station KNAK in Delta, Utah where she worked as a teenager. She borrowed her father's Ford Thunderbird to go study at the library. Instead of driving to the library, she ended up at a hamburger stand. When her father found out, he took the car away. The next day she was at the radio station complaining about it to the staff while The Beach Boys were visiting and they were inspired to write this song. Now you know.
"I've paid my dues, time after time. I've done my sentence, but committed no crime..." Clues: There a football team singing this one. This group will rock you.
Sunday we went out to The Place. There was lots of activity, with a crane, a cement truck and about 25 workers. They were filing in the floor footings and working on the wall. There are pics at Flickr. You will notice, if you look real close, that the shirts and scarves from the ceremony are still flying high on the masts.
In the evening we went into town for a massage and dinner. Every massage place does the same thing, basically, but with their own variations on Thai massage. The place we went to was one we'd been to before. The last time, I just had my feet done, but Lisa had a full treatment. This time we both got the full deal. I'll just say that the highlight of the experience was when I realized that my 'operator' had shifted from knees to feet, and was walking on my back. Hmm, I'd heard about this, but it was a first for me.
We left relaxed and hungry so we strolled over to the NB and went to the upstairs restaurant for dinner. From upstairs we could look out on the NB and watch all the happenings. After dinner we went down and joined the crowd.
Have a Great Week.

Peace,
Danny

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer;
it sings because it has a song."
~Maya Angelou


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