Friday Funnies

 Hi,

Well, just another beautiful summer day in Chiang Rai.  Next week we’ll have a few days in the 70’s, then back to the mid 80’s for Santa’s helicopter landing (555).

The ‘Jazzy Wednesday’ tune was “Nature Boy” as made famous by Nat ‘King’ Cole. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq0XJCJ1Srw  The song was written by eden ahbez, a writer and often referred to as an early hippie.  At one time, he lived behind the Hollywood sign.  He was part of a group of young people who ate raw food, wrote music and poetry and believed in clean living.  He got the song to Nat Cole at a club where he was performing.  Cole got great response and recorded it.  The rest is history.  I can remember my mother taking me to see The Boy With Green Hair (1948), which featured the song.  Now, it’s time for our next ‘Old School Friday Holiday Song’.  This one comes up every year and it still brings a smile for me.  “__ __, just slip a sable under the tree, for me.  Been an awful good girl, __ __ and hurry down the chimney tonight.”  Hint: I think you should be able to get it from that.  

Today’s adventures began with another trip to Big C.  The natural progression from that, is a trip across the highway to Central Plaza Mall and coffee at Starbuck’s before the mall opens.  After coffee, we went to Robinson, the anchor department store, in search of some ceramic cookware, but first we needed to shop for Nitchanan.  Walking up and down the aisles at this time of year can be a little overwhelming.  So many choices, so many characters I know nothing about.  There was a whole section of toys from Japan that caught my attention.  When I was young we had an electric train that held our attention for several years.  Today I saw a train set based on the ‘Bullet Train’.  It was pretty cool.  We finally settled on some art things and a book.  She likes to ‘read’ with us.  The store didn’t have the skillet we wanted so the search continues.  

On our way through the mall we were surprised by an installation we didn’t expect.  The flower show happens this time of year and this time they went all out.  The best way to tell you is to show you.  Too bad you can’t smell it.

In January of 2007, we came to Chiang Rai for a 10 day visit, to see if this was where we wanted to live.  We were basing it on a 3 day visit in 2001.  One of the influences was the fact that our friend Blue had in-laws who lived here and had treated us with open arms the first time we met them.  On our ’07 visit, one of the places they took us was the flower show.  Opening night was an incredible mass of cars and people, but we got there and had a wonderful time.  This year will be the first time since we have lived here that we will be able to attend the show, since we’ve always been in California during the show.  

Have a Wonderful WeekEnd.

                     Peace,

                               Danny