Family // Park Day

Every weekend we try and take Rylee to her favourite place in Bangkok, the park. We rent a mat, get cold drinks (thai tea for Daddy, green tea for Mommy, and fresh squeezed orange juice for Rylee), and find a nice shady spot near the playground. 

I just love seeing Rylee get to run free outdoors and interact with kids of all nationalities. This week in particular was a special one as we made friends with a group of Thai kids who seemed instantly enamoured with our kids. I joked around that one girl could be our nanny, she was a natural with Zach, she's gonna be a great momma someday.  Sevio found common ground with two boys who were very into European soccer teams, forget English all you need is the names of famous soccer stars to get their eyes to light up with excitement. We also met another boy, who was more to himself strumming away on his guitar, but it's name that made him stand out to us, God, talk about big shoes to fill with that name!

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Rylee // At The Park

Being in Bangkok with small children is not the easiest of things, at least if you don't have a car. Getting around with a stroller in our neighbourhood is ok, but to venture out further we run into a problem... giant overpasses (stairs up, stairs down, and 14 lanes of traffic) and let me just clarify... there is no handicap accessibility up and down those stairs! So needless to say the kids and I stay home much of the week solely because we can't get out without the assistance of Sevio. 

As you can imagine by the time the weekend rolls around I am SO ready to get out of our tiny apartment and so is Rylee (you try entertaining a highly spirited and very energetic two year old in one bedroom 6 days straight)! So for the last little while we've been making it a point to get her out to her favourite park ("ARK" as Rylee calls it), Chatuchak. Theres a big playground, a very large pond with turtles and fish you can feed, a million pigeons to chase, lots of green grass for us to sprawl out on, and then theres the obvious famous Chatuchak Market right across the street.

We'll take her at least one day of the weekend to run off her pent up energy, and I have to say this has become a special day that we can set aside just for her...which I think is important to do now that we've got 2 kidlets. Its been fun to watch her play with a HUGE smile on her face, and I just love seeing her interact with the other kids, it never ceases to amaze me how "playing" is a universal language!

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