[Chris - AMWSO]

Hi All

Some pics form the holiday down on Koh Lanta near Krabi. Also Alex's second birthday.
http://www.somtam.com/alex/528053357105_0_ALB.jpg
View from the hut.
http://www.somtam.com/alex/928053357105_0_ALB.jpg
The outdoor bath.
http://www.somtam.com/alex/738053357105_0_ALB.jpg
Sunset on the beach.
http://www.somtam.com/alex/225383357105_0_ALB.jpg
Alex and Baeng on the beach.
http://www.somtam.com/alex/115383357105_0_ALB.jpg
Alex and Nok on an elephant

http://www.somtam.com/alex/333153357105_0_ALB.jpg
Alex and a friend taking a nap.
http://www.somtam.com/alex/613153357105_0_ALB.jpg
Really cool island with Billions of fish around it.
http://www.somtam.com/alex/813153357105_0_ALB.jpg
The beach from the sea.
http://www.somtam.com/alex/823153357105_0_ALB.jpg
Sunset from the hut

http://www.somtam.com/alex/485834357105_0_ALB.jpg
Alex cuts the cake

http://www.somtam.com/alex/395834357105_0_ALB.jpg
Playing with a present.

http://www.somtam.com/alex/795834357105_0_ALB.jpg
Kids and Nok Fight over the bubble wrap.
http://www.somtam.com/alex/595834357105_0_ALB.jpg
Baeng looking sweet http://abw.infopop.cc/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

http://www.somtam.com/alex/895834357105_0_ALB.jpg
Ooops sorry... this is Baeng, on the speed boat heading back to the mainland.

Cheers

Chris

[Kellie aka Ms. B]

They are all broken images for me?? http://abestweb.com/smilies/cry.gif

[SandraR]

Dang got hit with the big X

[Catalyst]

Chris, we want to see your pics! http://66.132.187.8/smilies/yes.gif

[RugmanAM]

*waits patiently*

[Haiko de Poel, Jr.]

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[Chris - AMWSO]

Bugger they were working when I posted them..... Okay will fix today http://abestweb.com/smilies/confused.gif

[Chris - AMWSO]

Fixed.

[Linda]

Great pics, Chris! Looks like you had a great vacation.

[Dirk Gardner]

Wow!

What awesome pics!!! Really making me pine to re-visit Thailand. I have an open offer from a friend down past huahin who has just finished building a 3 story party house on the beach. I think I will have to take him up on his offer sooner rather than later!

Congrats on you son's 2nd birthday http://abw.infopop.cc/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

[Mike O]

Great pics, indeed!

A nice vacation, and a nice family too!

-- Mike

[Ebudae]

Beautiful and the kids sure have grown!! What happened with the cast?

Hey, we got to ride elephants at the Ren fest too! http://abw.infopop.cc/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

Thanks for sharing - great pics!!

[Chris - AMWSO]

Dirk : Hua Hin is nice, further South you got the better it gets (way better), but Hua Hin is nice beach resort.

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> What happened with the cast? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Well.... it's like this.

The front gate on our drive way is a pretty solid chunk of Iron, and it has a stopper which prevents it from going too far when being closed... Alex, being the good boy he is, always closes the gate...however 4 weeks ago he got the gate up to a speed that it bounced over the stopper...and fell on him, we're talking adult shoulder high very heavy gate!

I got to hear all this on the mobile while at the office to the background of screaming, crying and shouting... not the best call I've ever got.... roughly all I could make out was "Alex, gate...head...blood...hospital!! " ... made it across Bangkok from one end to the other in under an hour and got to the hospital before the doctor had started treating Alex. Which got me shouting very loudly and caused a doctor to be summoned rather swiftly...

He got lots of cuts and bruises and 10 stitches in his head and hurt his arm... x-rays showed no serious damage to his head, the cut was caused by the gate sliding across his head when he was on the flaw (okay you can take you hands away from your face now)...

....anyway 2 weeks passed and we noticed he wasn't comfortable about something but no one knew what until he fell over at the park 2 weeks ago and landed on his arm...then he started howling and wouldn't let any one touch it, off to a different hospital, x-ray, found he's had a broken forearm for two weeks!!!!!!!!!!! Thoughts of baseball bats and a certain doctor are constantly on my mind.

Anyway once he had the cast put on he was super happy, it hasn't bothered him at all and comes off next week we hope.

But I tell you, that was the most horrifying experience of my life!

Naturally the gate has been changeding to one that can't fall over and is made of aluminium. http://abw.infopop.cc/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

Cheers

Chris

[SandraR]

BEAUTIFUL pics... Thanks for sharing http://abestweb.com/smilies/thumbup2.gif

[Catalyst]

Chris those really are beautiful. Now I know the whole Alex broken arm story too. Good to know he's on the mend now. Thanks for sharing your vaca with us.

[phillyburbs]

Awesome stuff, Chris!

[Nova]

http://abestweb.com/smilies/cry.gif
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!
I wanna go home!

That sure make me miss my hometown.
Thank for sharing Chris awesome pic and it feels close to home. http://abestweb.com/smilies/toast.gif

Let's kick some doctor butt! http://www.abestweb.com/smilies/pirate2.gif


(shhh... time for me to take some HP!)

[RugmanAM]

Beautiful pics Chris - thanks for sharing!!

Your life really makes me feel sheltered - I have an itch to go-a-traveling now!!

Pacific Rim... here I come? Ah - it'll have to wait - got an affiliate program to run for now outta North America.

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[Dirk Gardner]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> Dirk : Hua Hin is nice, further South you got the better it gets (way better), but Hua Hin is nice beach resort. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> http://abw.infopop.cc/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif I know it well. I spent about 2 1/2 years in Thailand living in Sukhumvit Soi 11 and have travelled quite extensively south tho I havent really ventured north.

Here is a pic of his place he sent me a few days ago. I think it is about 30 miles south of Hua Hin on a beach next to a nature reserve.
http://2400hrs.com/house.jpg

If my memory serves me correctly your offices are in Silom? Is Silom soi 4 still a good place for the youngsters to get a drink? (I was much younger then http://abw.infopop.cc/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif)

[Ebudae]

((alex)) poor little guy - glad he is ok and nothing worse happened!!

This is why parents have grey hair http://abw.infopop.cc/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

[nyfalcon]

Chris
Great pics and glad to see the little one is on the mend. So when are we gonna see an alumium gate merchant on WSO there seems to be a need for such a thing.. Thats me always thinking http://abw.infopop.cc/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

[Chris - AMWSO]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> Is Silom soi 4 still a good place for the youngsters to get a drink? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Gone to the dogs it has... even the discos there aren't up to what they were.

Liz : Easy solution, ask for pay cut, say down by 25% and then say you'll work from home http://abw.infopop.cc/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

Really glad everyone liked the pics, I was over here for alomost 8 years before I managed to go on holiday so now I need to do a lot of catching up, In Jan I'm off to Kanchanaburi and Koh Samed as my Sister and Dad are coming over, that'll be the first time ever that all the Grandkids and have been in the same country http://abw.infopop.cc/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

But I also need to squeeze in a trip back to Umphang to do some rafting...and I GOTTA go back to Krabi to do a week of diving... so much to do...I need more staff so I can skip off more often http://abw.infopop.cc/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

Cheers

Chris

[JJJay]

Great pics, thanks for sharing.

[Patrick - AMWSO]

ooooh, didn't no we were posting photo's too!

I'll have to post a picy of my daughter too! She's got her eye on Alex http://abestweb.com/smilies/love.gif

Patrick

[Chris - AMWSO]

She'll change her mind when I get up the pic with his face buried in Chocolate Icecream http://abw.infopop.cc/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif