Today, two things happened of note. One is while I was standing in the massive waiting room talking to Chris while waiting to start clinic probably an 11yo female walked up to me and said in pretty good english "How are you today? I am Nah", gave me a hug and ran away. She completely ignored Chris who was standing beside me. Now realize, I've never seen this girl before and probably never will again. It reminds me why I love kids--if an adult ever did this to me I would probably slap them, etc.
The second one is we found the giant shopping complex in Bangkok called Siam Square--it is a conglomerate of 3 large multilevel buildings full of high end shops surrounded by streets and streets of smaller shops in addition to a bazaar type area. The food in that area, not too grand, but we did stay away from the Outback, McDonalds, Pizza Hut, Swansens, and Au Bon Pain that was very prominent.
Getting there we took a cab, no problems--they used the meter. Coming home, not so clear. We hailed at least 6cabs, all refused to use the meter quoting "traffic" and charged us about 2x the initial price off the meter. Once we got back to the area we are staying in, we realized that cabbies probably don't like to come over to our side of town b/c they have no clue how to get around. We showed several the map & they acted completely clueless--the one that did take us home looked utterly lost when we got out of the cab. Oh well lesson learned--will probably take cab to a well known area close by and then take the bus from there from now on.
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I thought an adult did do that to you . . . and didn't you get his number?
Sophie pointed at your picture in her book and said "Heather". You may be gone, but you're not forgotten.
I really missed you this week. Poor Sophie has a upper respiratory virus and ended up on the nebulizer today for 17 minutes (Matt took her to the doc). Plus I had a busier week at work than I've had in ages, on top of only working half-time b.c we were splitting time to care for Sophie (she was out of school Tuesday on). Anyway, amidst the chaos I kept thinking "god, Heather would laugh at this (or that)" and then realize I couldn't call!
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