Doing Things in November:
When we do something, whether traveling to a foreign country or just going out to dinner, I must choose to enjoy that time or document that time. I cannot choose both. This is an example of enjoying our time having a nice dinner but taking a dozen photos and making a short 60-second video. I hope you enjoy.
Or sometimes I put my iPhone in my pocket, and I use my good camera and just point and shoot while thinking that ‘I’ll come up with a story later’. Good friends were visiting from Bangkok for a few days and one of those days was spent at the Mae Sot Cave Complex.
So, with 74 photographs and 44 random 1-minute clips I came up with a 8-minute story using narration to glue everything together.
Just a Little Money Talk:
While killing some time as Diane did her piano gig at the Cathedral, I ducked into a nearby coffee shop to hide from a sudden and unexpected downpour of rain. I shook my umbrella out before I entered and then ordered a cappuccino with a croissant for $2.01. It was delicious. Then I became curious and looked up some info. At Starbucks in Seattle this exact same thing is just over $9. So, let’s just extrapolate this out. If someone did this every day in the US, it would be more than $3280 a year. For that amount of money spent, you could have paid for a round-trip ticket to Paris from Seattle, stayed in an Airbnb for 6 nights with a view of the Eiffel Tower and spend $1500 eating great French food. OMG! Boom, ’nuff said, drops the microphone. (BTW I would never drop someone’s microphone on stage, that is arrogant and rude). So, you choose: a coffee treat each day or a trip to Paris for a week.
I’m always astonished, gleeful and too mathematically intrigued about the cost of living in Thailand versus the US to stop these continuing comparisons.
Two years in Thailand
November 8th was our 2-year anniversary of living in Thailand. The first picture, captured 2-years ago, was at Tha Pae Gate after traveling for 26 hours. The other photo is us celebrating our 2nd anniversary at our neighborhood Italian restaurant. Cheers to us! (Oh, and notice the lack of ‘face-fat’ that occurred in two years… just sayin’) 🙂
I am also reminded that “Winter is Coming” – it’s more like winter is here. It’s December 1st and to my delight when I began my morning walk at sunrise, it was clear skies and 57. Brr!! I was forced to put on a jacket because a tee-shirt just wouldn’t cut it (in my defense there was also a stiff 4 mph wind). We had just returned from the Philippines the previous day where at sunrise it was 80 and then reached a billion degrees by lunch. Here it will barely reach 83 degrees!
Check out Diane’s latest piano solo on YouTube at:
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Photos of the Month:
Family Commute
“I am, I think, I will” – Ayn Rand, Anthem