Our Christmas and New Year - first instalment

At Bangkok's new spangling airport 23rd December

It takes 3 and a half hours to fly from Colombo to Bangkok. We spent a day enjoying the wonder of the amazing department stores with their Christmas decorations, Children's play areas, baby changing rooms and delectable food halls. Joe loved the Sky train. After a night in a hotel we flew on a 50 minute plane ride to Udon Thani, where our friends met us and took us over the border to Laos.

Little Christmas Pudding



















Pre-Christmas baking - Chocolate Crispies






















Our friends that we spent Christmas with

Beanie and Luke


















Guy and Joe











Guy and Beanie love Joe and Luke and vice versa, so Mike and I enjoyed a relaxing time while our kids were entertained. We loved catching up with Jason and Lindsey, James and Kate and we managed a few trips out to cafes, restaurants, a river walk and a boat trip on a river. We love Laos and it is always a pleasure to visit it. It was considerably cooler and less humid than Sri Lanka (unusually cool even for Laos), so we loved having a duvet at night and the cooler air in the day.

Christmas day was great - Jason and Lindsey had imported cranberry sauce, bread sauce, Christmas pud etc and had found a turkey. A great time with good friends! New Year was spent on a plane returning to Sri Lanka!