We were in Lumpini Park today on our way to the train station when Ben wanted to stop to take pictures of the most beautiful city he's ever seen. Here, we are feeling confident and safe. (The unpleasantness began an hour after this picture was taken. Read my last post for details).
An hour BEFORE this photo, we had found a pharmacy to buy some antibiotics for Ben's suspected case of sinusitis. (Here the pharmacist can diagnose and prescribe antibiotics for these kinds of things.) The woman pharmacist spoke PERFECT English and the drugs we bought were less than $25. We had also cashed traveler's checks. We tried at one bank and a teller there told us that we would have to travel quite far to get to a bank that could cash the checks for us, but we'd been told by the concierge at the hotel that there was a bank in this tower that could help us. So...we kept searching and we found a bank to do the transaction in less than 5 minutes!
At Lumpini Park, much like Central Park with swan boats to water-paddle on a lake, we felt peaceful and relaxed and we never got lost nor felt unsafe in walking around.
Thoughts on Connecting with your spouse while traveling: At home when we are going about our day to day, our conversations centre a whole lot on the details of getting things done– it's what happens when you have careers and children and you are renovating your kitchen!
Here, so far, we've been focused on the details of getting from place to place and figuring out what we're going to do and when. It's a bit exhausting and I spent HOURS and HOURS booking and researching everything before we got here. I think it will level out, that the details of getting from place to place will smooth out and like all changes in life, time settles much grief.
One thing we aren't worried about is our children back home; they are responsible and will take good care of themselves. That is certainly something to be grateful for, much as I hate using a cliche to express myself. Perhaps that's a sign that I'm getting tired and can soon go back to sleep instead of tossing and turning. I'm in the bathroom right now, sitting on a pillow on the tile floor, my back against the bathtub. I bet it would be a cute picture. Actually, I just took a picture with Photo Booth. Here it is:
I need to buy a brush tomorrow. And a few other things. I'm looking very 12:13 in the morning!
An hour BEFORE this photo, we had found a pharmacy to buy some antibiotics for Ben's suspected case of sinusitis. (Here the pharmacist can diagnose and prescribe antibiotics for these kinds of things.) The woman pharmacist spoke PERFECT English and the drugs we bought were less than $25. We had also cashed traveler's checks. We tried at one bank and a teller there told us that we would have to travel quite far to get to a bank that could cash the checks for us, but we'd been told by the concierge at the hotel that there was a bank in this tower that could help us. So...we kept searching and we found a bank to do the transaction in less than 5 minutes!
At Lumpini Park, much like Central Park with swan boats to water-paddle on a lake, we felt peaceful and relaxed and we never got lost nor felt unsafe in walking around.
Thoughts on Connecting with your spouse while traveling: At home when we are going about our day to day, our conversations centre a whole lot on the details of getting things done– it's what happens when you have careers and children and you are renovating your kitchen!
Here, so far, we've been focused on the details of getting from place to place and figuring out what we're going to do and when. It's a bit exhausting and I spent HOURS and HOURS booking and researching everything before we got here. I think it will level out, that the details of getting from place to place will smooth out and like all changes in life, time settles much grief.
One thing we aren't worried about is our children back home; they are responsible and will take good care of themselves. That is certainly something to be grateful for, much as I hate using a cliche to express myself. Perhaps that's a sign that I'm getting tired and can soon go back to sleep instead of tossing and turning. I'm in the bathroom right now, sitting on a pillow on the tile floor, my back against the bathtub. I bet it would be a cute picture. Actually, I just took a picture with Photo Booth. Here it is:
I need to buy a brush tomorrow. And a few other things. I'm looking very 12:13 in the morning!
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