Not that American Independence Day has any special meaning for us, we just needed to go out and have our car serviced. It was the 25,000 kilometer maintenance check-up of our car and while we waited for it to get done we went elsewhere.
Here's Little Nio hiding inside his Daddy's closet early in the morning. We have to leave early to make sure that we're at the front of the queue.
Sitting with his Mommy for an early breakfast at the Café Reno, right across the road from the Nissan Service Center. After breakfast we went off to Chatuchak Park to enjoy the weather.
Here's Little Nio spending time feeding the birds at the park.
For only 20 THB you get three fairly big bags of bird pellets. We spent a modest sum and lots of time feeding the birds. We both got a tremendous work out chasing after the birds and pelting them with pellets, while Mommy got some much needed rest time in the shade of the trees.
On July 18 is my wife, Kanittha's birthday! And as you can see it's a bit of a slow start for Little Nio.
A bit of gratuitous baby nudity to keep the ratings of this blog fairly decent. Fresh from a nice warm bath and getting ready to go out for a late lunch. We're going to keep this photograph here as blackmail material for when he gets old enough to date and we need to keep him in line somehow.
It was Mommy's day, so she got to choose how the day would unfold, what we were going to do and where we were supposed to go.
Little Nio is not at all excited about having matching outfits with his Daddy. He got over it though. We ended up going to a mall very near to our village, where we had lunch at "Sizzlers" and then did a bit of shopping. My wife picked out her own birthday gift, a simple gold bracelet. Times are tough, so we have to scale back on a few things and even birthday gifts go through the same downsizing exercise.
We also had to get a new washing machine and a new refrigerator as both items were carry overs from our old apartment. The cost of repairing them twice was almost the cost of buying a new appliance. Not too bad considering that both appliances were long past their warranty periods. Big expenses, but unfortunately necessary ones.
Little Nio discovered that there was some sort of Science Fiction exhibit at the convention area of the mall, so we both gravitated quickly to the displays.
Here he is posing in front of a cheap Transformers knock-off.
Getting up close and personal with the creature from "Alien". This one is probably a pygmy version as it isn't as large as it was imagined for the films.
A really short version of the alien hunter creature from "Predator". Not a bad model, just not to the proper scale.
Standing in front of a very impressive Gundam robot model.
Captured by a couple of stormtroopers from "Star Wars", Little Nio and his Daddy get escorted to see Darth Vader.
Here we are in front of a pretty good Darth Vader display, complete with flashing lights on the chest plate.
Here's Little Nio spending time studying the displays and items at the "Batman" counter.
The next day, we were able to do a simple celebration where his Mommy blew out some candles on a doughnut. My wife's special request was to get half a dozen of her favorite doughnuts from "Daddy Dough", we just put some candles on top of them and she blew them out.
Simple, intimate and a very special day for my wife. Little Nio looks on to make sure that all the trick candles get blown out properly. We had a great time.
