We met my parents Suvarnabhumi Airport, in Bangkok, today. After the Valentines Day rush (my Dad is in the flower business), my parents hopped on a redeye to Bangkok. Besides coming to visit us, they’re celebrating an early thirtieth wedding anniversary (real one is in June) and its my mom’s long awaited return to Bangkok and Thailand, where she taught English for two years, thirty years ago. For Joylani and I, it’ll be awesome to see and spend time with them. Additionally, it’ll be a bit of a break from the backpacker life for us, since they’re treating us to a couple weeks of travel. Needless to say, their standards are bit higher than ours, so we’ll be rolling in style for the next couple of weeks. Although they are some of the last people we saw (July, in Paris), it’s been nearly seven months since we’ve seen them. It was great to see them today, although they were both understandably tired. We had a nice lunch and then my Dad crashed for the night. We walked around with my Mom a bit before taking the SkyTrain over to Siam Square. It was interesting to hear her perspective on the city, which so far is: most of the city looks much the same, but there weren’t skyscrapers everywhere and its way more commercialized now. After our little excursion, we headed back to the hotel, where my Mom stayed for the rest of the night. With my parents catching up on jet lag, Joylani and I enjoyed our unbelievable hotel room at the Oriental, which may warrant its own post at some point. Like nearly every night for the past seven months, we went out for dinner and I followed Joylani around a market for a while, while she looked at clothes (Joylani asks that I clarify the “every night” refers to going out to eat, not following her around shopping . Now back at the hotel, we’ll enjoy the night and look forward to hanging out with my rested parents tomorrow.

postnote: as the photo of the day can attest, the view from our current room is substantially better than its been in awhile…