Day Five

Day Five, November 17, 2008

Highlight of the day:

Knowing that Sean is feeling better

Rice fields

Swimming during the down pour of rain with the kids

Tea Time by the pool

Watching Sydney talk to the Gecko’s before her bedtime

Supermarket exploration

 

We made it past Monkey Forest Road today!  Thanks to Maxine (aka Gypsy—long time camp friend) we headed north for about one hour and had lunch at the Rice Field Restaurant.  We drove past many, many artist shops along the route.  Amazing trinkets and home décor stuff…hmmm now I know where Pier One might be gathering some of their stuff.  We didn’t buy anything …yet.

The rice fields are beautiful.  It is, however, a different game with kids.  We are all seeing things for the first time and while Rich and I take a moment to look at the amazing sights Sydney is on the ground looking at rocks, checking out the “huge” steps and commenting on the sounds.  This in itself is pretty “cool”.  We don’t linger long but we get a two for one bang out of this. 

It is hot and it is humid and we are oh so grateful for a pool. 

 

This morning we were up at the crack of dawn and heading to the market (local) where after some supermarket exploration I discovered that I am slightly getting ripped of.  But, where else does one go at 5:00 am with a two year old….

 

I am having a few “significant moments” as Theresa would say.  I spent at least one hour with my head lamp on giving my kids a foot massage and talking on our bed.  How cool …

I am also starting to feel the need for methodical planning and, for the first time in a long time, the idea of just taking a moment to really realize patience… that things just take time and it is what it is. . .

How cool…