Back from Bangkok

We don't have any pictures to show for it, but we had a great weekend in Bangkok. We went a little upscale, staying at the marginally fabulous Four Seasons Bangkok, and making the mistake of saying "oh, it's late, let's just meet some friends at the garden bar on Thursday night when we arrive" which pretty much doubled the cost of our weekend.

For those of you who know these people, we spent alot of our weekend hanging out with the following: Patrick Barta, of Wall Street Journal fame; Kate Besleme (of St. Olaf College fame) and her husband Orestes; and A.D. of 119th A-100 Foreign Service training fame. We also got to see some friends we made while at FSI learning Lao and spend some time with our neighbors in Vientiane, who were down for the weekend as well (Tom served as security officer in BKK previously, where he met his wife, Ghot, a Thai employee at the embassy at the time, so they are pretty wired into the neighborhood).

We didn't do a whole lot of culturally redeeming activities, but I did get new tennis rackets, Katherine got some stuff, we ate a lot of food, and saw a movie at a theater that had reserved seating in extra plush lazyboys, blankets and pillows, and table service for your popcorn and soda (or scotch and soda if you so desired), all for a reasonable $6.50.

Anyway, that was our weekend.

Katherine is yelling at me about something...gotta go.