Category Archives: Travel

May27

Visit to the Mauy Thai fight gym

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Today we visited lots of Mauy Thai gym. Which is suppose to be one of the fights we must learn while here in bangkok.

We visited one by a famous instructor Master Toddy.
He trains lots of Hollywood guys. One of his student is David (screen name Tommy) in power rangers. Now when you have a 5yr old boy and you mention anything about power rangers they go wild. So my son was so excited and ready to start the fight….LOL!!

So Master Toddy gave our 5yr old Mj a gift that he probably will cherish forever it’s a autograph of David in power ranger picture. Mj was so excited.
Pictures below will show how he held the picture while walking the streets of bangkok just smiling.

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After we visited another Mauy Thai gym and here are some few pictures.

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After our visits to the Mauy Thai gyms we decided to visit the emporium mall….well it’s really the mall for people who love designer clothing and shoes and bags….a lot of bling  bling….LOL!!!

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Our day in bangkok keeps getting exciting.

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May26

First Date Night In Bangkok

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Date nights are always super fun because I get to dress up by my girls most of the time…LO!!!

And from the moment our date night starts Marcus and I just focus on each other. Nothing else matters.  Just great laughs and remembering all the years we have spent together. The good times and not so exciting times.

We usually start the date off with him asking me what shirt he should wear today? Then the next question is usually where and what would I like to do.

Well in Bangkok that question really is hard to answer because there is so much to do just on the streets of Bangkok.

So last night on our date night we decided to do something we have never done before that is both getting a Thai massage in Bangkok in the same room….So we asked our landlord Taka to recommend a place for us.

He told us to go to Thong lor road on Sukhumvit 55. We live on Sukhumvit 59  so it really a walking distance from our apartment and with so much to see while walking there is no need taking a taxi.

But then it started raining really hard. But we got to the place before the rain started pouring down.

So in Bangkok when you go in to get a massage they have a seated area and you sit there while they wash your feet with soap and water. pretty interesting.

After they took us to the massage room which only had curtains and a foam on the floor. The Thai massage is done without the oils. ( at least the one we did and most of the Thai massage places)

A 60min Thai massage cost us $6 each. Now tell me why anyone will go for years before getting a Thai massage. The price is just right.

After we walked around Thonglor to soi 13 to have some dinner and we found a place that had great food on soi 13. We had sushi which I have now come to really love to eat.

below is our dessert which was really good too. it’s a honey toasted huge bread filled with ice cream, bananas and some whip cream. when it arrived at our table we had a jaw dropping moment because the bread was so big. In Ghana we call that bread Butter bread.

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After dinner we decided to go to the movies. So we took a taxi and went to the movies close to our apartment. Believe me they had movies that will start showing at 11pm….What!!! that’s what I said.

While in the movie theater watching the thrillers of other new movies coming up. We had a pause and everyone in the movie theater had to stand up and pay respect to the King of Bangkok….it was weird but I wish we did that in our country. While we are standing and they are playing some music in Thai language. They had pictures of the King helping people on the screen. It’s really a cool experience. And I must say Thai people are very proud of their country and their King.

So we got to watch Mad Max which I find it a very weird movie to watch. But I enjoyed it and movie was done at 1am. So we then got into a taxi  and went home.

So Date night to remember….Bangkok rock.

May24

Swimming at night

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So after a great day….we had to cool off with a swim at our apartment and believe me the water was very very warm….

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Let the fun continue on….Bangkok living

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May24

Spoilt with street food

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Bangkok is filled with street food it does not make any sence to cook at home….

Today we spent out and in the evening we had another street food explorations.

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That was in Thong Lo

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That is salted grill Tillapia…yummy

Street food all the way…

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May23

Inovation at its Best in Bangkok

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So while at the mall called Terminal 21, Marcus said he was going to the bathroom. We waited for him for about 5min he did not return. Then my phone buzz and it was a whatsapp photo from Marcus…the picture is what am sharing….

Don’t ask me what the buttons are for but from my little to clueless knowledge it seem like you use it to wash your butt after doing #2 by just pressing one of those buttons you see, and it has a button for drying your butt too…LOL!!! who said you need toilet paper in every bathroom….super cool. So after I received that picture from Marcus I had to go to the bathroom and I could not try it because one of the buttons says shower and I was scared to push it and have water all of me…LOL!! I will use it one day before I depart from Bangkok.

That's the toilet seats in the bathrooms....

That’s the toilet seats in the bathrooms….

Now the next picture is a shocker…a robot vacuum cleaner….come on now…That’s what I said…But hey I guess they are too busy inventing news things they can’t vacuum their homes…LOL!!

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May23

Grocery Store Day in Bangkok

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So our first day we needed to go to the grocery store for some stuff.

So we took the BTS sky train to E9 which is about 2 stops away from our apartment.

We went to Tesco Lotus store

It was huge…my goodness…LOL!!!

And so many options to choose from. Fresh fish ( which can be grilled right there for you….at the grocery store)  But we found out that Tesco is one of the cheapest way to shop for groceries so I think I will be there more often. Also found out that you can shop for your groceries online and for $1.80 they will deliver all your groceries to your home….Now that convenient shopping…

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Below are some more random photos to share

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Daddies buddies

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Me and my new co pilot

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father and son in action

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Rated R….he had to find a way to make us all laugh

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I had to get in the fun too…that is breast with pink nipples..LOL!!!

May23

Our First Full day In Bangkok

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Sawdsdi ( Sawadikaaa) meaning Hello in Thai…

So after a long street food hunt we woke up the next day at 12noon, so tired but for some reason being tired produces more energy for a city like Bangkok.

We got up and walked back ont the street. We had a great lunch.

Then we went to the BTS station ( sky train station) to buy our train pass…That was a funny adventure since we had not idea how to communicate with the people what we really wanted…LOL!!

But we finally go through by using an app on my Samsung Note 4 phone called Translate….it really helped since you can type in english and choose the language you want it to translate into for you and this time we choose Thai.

So for 6 BTS pass and some money on it we paid 1,200 Baht ( $36) so we are all set to travel around the Sukumvit area.

We got on the BTS at the station called ….Name below in this picture

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So we got on the BTS and headed to Terminal 21 which is one of their biggest malls in Bangkok. We got off at E4 which is right in front of the mall.

The mall was huge with 10 levels and each level is labeled like a country. So they had Istanbul, San Francisco, London, Paris, Rome, India, Caribbean, Food court, Hollywood and a parking lot .

The place was a shopping definitely for shoppaholics…LOL!!!

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At the food court they do not take cash at the food stands you will have to buy a food card ( the card is free ) but you load it with some money. We bought 2 cards and loaded it with $12 ( which is 700 baht). The card expires in 30days but if after that day you still have money on it you can take it to them and they will give you cash back. So its great to have that if you do visit Terminal 21.

Now this was really new to me…the food court was packed with options of foods and one that I really loved was the healthy fries….yeap healthy fries…

This was at a place called Mama Monkey. They have fried bananas like french fries and, fried banana cheese balls. everything is based on using banana.

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As we walked around the food court we realized 99% of the things they eat are so healthy…lots of fruits and veggies. lots of smoothie stands freshly made. So you know us we had to try some and it was really good.

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blenders ready to make fresh smoothies

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So when you buy the coconut and drink the water then they serve your ice cream in it too…

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ready for salads

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choose and let me grill

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No need to print menus…we prepare the dish and show them to you…LOL

We can live here for years…..

May23

First Night in Bangkok

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With lights all over the place our faces are filled with smiles and ready to explore the city of Bangkok.

After we checked into our new home for 2 months.

We walked about 5min from our apartment to the buzzing streets of Bangkok and at 10pm the place was filled with people and cars tooting all over the place and street food was freshly made.

We had so many options to choose from and we looked like kids in a candy shop. LOL!!

We decided to sit and have some street food. This lady in the pictures below made the food for us while we wait.  From the fresh shrimps and chicken and all that fresh veggies.

Each plate of food was 50 Baht ( $1.49 ) so for our plates we got we paid $5.96 and that was our dinner and everyone was super full. our 4 bottles of small bottles of water was $.83 cents….Now that is what we call street food at a low low price.

Bangkok here we come with food exploration

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May22

Our Journey out of Nairobi

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Today we are all packed up ready to say goodbye to Nairobi. (May 21st 2015)

We met our nairobi landlord and made sure all bills are paid and handed the keys to her.
It was defiantly a great place to stay and the apartment was really nice it’s a 3 bedroom, staff quaters and 4 bathrooms. Pretty awesome for our large family.

So after all our 11 check in bags are packed into the van that was taking us to the airport we left our apartment at 4:45pm…the traffic was so horrible I could not believe a trip that usually takes us 30min, now took us 3 and a half hours. So be warned when going to the airport in Nairobi to catch a flight give yourself at least 4 hours drive time.

So we made it onto our flight. Right now I am blogging straight from Dubai airport waiting to connect our flight to bangkok.

Oh check this out, we have 18 bags
total in our possession. So we said instead of the 18 kids and counting like the Duggars we can do 18 bags and counting…lol!!!!

Bye bye Nairobi Kenya hello Asia!!!!

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May20

Amazing Life Long Friends

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And the party continues on and on…

As we are leaving our amazing friends that we have made in Nairobi decided to have a go away party just for us. It was really nice of them to do that for us.

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While we had a great time at the party all the kids decided to perform a dance program for us and it was super exciting watching all our kids create great memories and bonding for Life.

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Our kids have made Friends for Life….who said homeschool kids don’t know how to socialize…let the pictures tell you otherwise.

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