I would love to wish everyone a Happy New Year (Sawadee Bpee Mai)
May it be filled with blessings, prosperity and love!
May 2010 be all you wish it to be! Remeber to live every moment to the fullest and NEVER take anything and especially ANYONE for granted.
Please be safe tonight. No drinking and driving. Keep a Safe Follwing distance.
But most of all enjoy and let all those who are around you enjoy too!
All my Love.
Niki
Showing posts with label Festivals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Festivals. Show all posts
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Sunday, November 29, 2009
NOVEMBER
Good morning; friends family; gig's, mom. dad, the goat im taking home for christmas and a SPECIAL good morning to my gorgeous Boyfriend, lets not forget my small little snackies and my precious meri-moo :)
Well well November was a fun exciting month filled with the general adventures one gets swept up by while here in the city of sin!
November started off with a Bang, and a floating pop! With Loy Krathong and my awesome annual leave at the end of november which was awesome and jam packed to the brim with sites and sounds!
As of 2morrow; I will have been living in Thailand for 12 Months.....and i look back over those 12 months and wow...its really been a life changing experiance, from day one!
Well let me fill you in on November. Loy Krathong was great; really got that feeling of community spirit and the intoxicating-nose hair decaying smells of Pattaya all in one. Then it was work work work till the 20th where I waited patiently at the airport waiting for my Knight in shining armour to arrive. Oh and when he did..... :) So off we went on our week long journey in and around Pattaya as well as being a bit more adventerous and taking some time out to explore the bigger parts of Thailand.....So hence the road trip started..... (Click here to view the road trip Pictures)
Starting from Pattaya heading north up towards some random places with names like Lom Sak; Nakhon Rachisma Etc.....sleeping on cement block (kerri will appriciate that) through an awesome forest; seeing an obsure although MASSIVE lake. Temples; further north to Sukothai; Pitsonaluk; Lopburi; and then down to fated bangkok! Then finally back home for dinner with my lovely friends and 2 days of relaxation; as well as some speed racing on saturday. Thanks to air asia's pathetic uselessness....Dustins flights were delayed by a couple of days so had another relaxing day yesterday and back to work today! (While my sexy fella gets to lounge and relax....which is something he totally deserves! )
Last night we treated ourselves to the absolutely EXQUISITE Centara Hotel dinner. Seriously....its the best meal i have had like ever! (Read More about Centara)
Im sure you have noticed i've now really spruced up my blog so take some time; watch some home movies; peruse through the pictures; and just enjoy!
(A little Bitch about Pattaya - if you can stomach the truth....not for the faint hearted...)
A couple of other things added this month:
Loy Krathong
A couple of posts for/ About things in and around Pattaya
Worth a watch is my home videos on driving in Pattaya.....
Hope you all are having a wonderful time!
Love to everyone! Nearly Christmas! YAY!
Niki
PS: DONT FORGET TO BECOME A FAN ON FACEBOOK!
Well well November was a fun exciting month filled with the general adventures one gets swept up by while here in the city of sin!
November started off with a Bang, and a floating pop! With Loy Krathong and my awesome annual leave at the end of november which was awesome and jam packed to the brim with sites and sounds!
As of 2morrow; I will have been living in Thailand for 12 Months.....and i look back over those 12 months and wow...its really been a life changing experiance, from day one!
Well let me fill you in on November. Loy Krathong was great; really got that feeling of community spirit and the intoxicating-nose hair decaying smells of Pattaya all in one. Then it was work work work till the 20th where I waited patiently at the airport waiting for my Knight in shining armour to arrive. Oh and when he did..... :) So off we went on our week long journey in and around Pattaya as well as being a bit more adventerous and taking some time out to explore the bigger parts of Thailand.....So hence the road trip started..... (Click here to view the road trip Pictures)
Starting from Pattaya heading north up towards some random places with names like Lom Sak; Nakhon Rachisma Etc.....sleeping on cement block (kerri will appriciate that) through an awesome forest; seeing an obsure although MASSIVE lake. Temples; further north to Sukothai; Pitsonaluk; Lopburi; and then down to fated bangkok! Then finally back home for dinner with my lovely friends and 2 days of relaxation; as well as some speed racing on saturday. Thanks to air asia's pathetic uselessness....Dustins flights were delayed by a couple of days so had another relaxing day yesterday and back to work today! (While my sexy fella gets to lounge and relax....which is something he totally deserves! )
Last night we treated ourselves to the absolutely EXQUISITE Centara Hotel dinner. Seriously....its the best meal i have had like ever! (Read More about Centara)
Im sure you have noticed i've now really spruced up my blog so take some time; watch some home movies; peruse through the pictures; and just enjoy!
(A little Bitch about Pattaya - if you can stomach the truth....not for the faint hearted...)
A couple of other things added this month:
Loy Krathong
A couple of posts for/ About things in and around Pattaya
Worth a watch is my home videos on driving in Pattaya.....
Hope you all are having a wonderful time!
Love to everyone! Nearly Christmas! YAY!
Niki
PS: DONT FORGET TO BECOME A FAN ON FACEBOOK!
Monday, November 2, 2009
Loy Krathong
What a lovely adventure!
Loy Krathong was Celebrated last night and it was amazing. The colours sights and sounds were just spectacular. It was so mezmarising and so magical! Click on my other link to see some of the pictures.
Also I've updated the Pattaya info site :)
http://nkloykrathong.blogspot.com/
So this day is supposedly the only day that the Thai ladies wear their traditional garb.....and wow...it is really exquisite! They wear the head pieces and all the bells and whistles.
So i wasnt sure how to go about buying the "Krathong" part of the festival so drove past one and then stopped at what i thought was another vender selling them....i was rather hesitant in asking....so ended up buying food....rice and pork then tentatively asking if her pretty krathongs were for sale....thank god they were...BUT I HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH THEY COST! She was a little old lady and they were so lovely i ended up buying 5.....yes 5. Sad i know....But none the less...off i went with my 5 krathong...called up my Landlord to see if he and his wife would like to come along too....and off we went.....
Once at the beach (supposedly setting your krathong free at the beach is bad karma considering the krathong should flow away from you and not back to you....) so because of this; there are people at the shore line offering their services for a mear 20 bht to swim out and take your krathong futher so it doesnt "bad-karma-your-ass". But no; Craig and I....we tredded out into the krathong laden water to do it ourselves.....got somewhat wet and sandy but all in the good spirit of cultural growth.....
Happy Loy Krathong Day!
Kho high mee Kwam Sook!
XOXOXOX
Also I've updated the Pattaya info site :)
http://nkloykrathong.blogspot.com/
So this day is supposedly the only day that the Thai ladies wear their traditional garb.....and wow...it is really exquisite! They wear the head pieces and all the bells and whistles.
So i wasnt sure how to go about buying the "Krathong" part of the festival so drove past one and then stopped at what i thought was another vender selling them....i was rather hesitant in asking....so ended up buying food....rice and pork then tentatively asking if her pretty krathongs were for sale....thank god they were...BUT I HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH THEY COST! She was a little old lady and they were so lovely i ended up buying 5.....yes 5. Sad i know....But none the less...off i went with my 5 krathong...called up my Landlord to see if he and his wife would like to come along too....and off we went.....
Once at the beach (supposedly setting your krathong free at the beach is bad karma considering the krathong should flow away from you and not back to you....) so because of this; there are people at the shore line offering their services for a mear 20 bht to swim out and take your krathong futher so it doesnt "bad-karma-your-ass". But no; Craig and I....we tredded out into the krathong laden water to do it ourselves.....got somewhat wet and sandy but all in the good spirit of cultural growth.....
Happy Loy Krathong Day!
Kho high mee Kwam Sook!
XOXOXOX
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