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Wednesday, October 11, 2006
much better - 03:20 PM
(filed under 'smiley')
he seems to be much better this afternoon. he slept until about 1pm & then started to get all chirpy & jump around. i took him out for some lunch since i was pretty hungry & i figured that he might also be if he was feeling better. he ate a decent serve of food, so it seems all is good now. 
sick - 08:47 AM
(filed under 'smiley')
poor little smiley's sick. no wonder he slept for so long. he had a spew when he woke up just before & then cuddled me for a while. he had another small spew but has now gone back to sleep.
shroom's up there with him now. he says he's feeling a bit yuck as well. the only think they've consumed which i haven't is some water when he took smiley out with him yesterday afternoon shortly after we arrived. the water was bottled, but ice was added & he thinks perhaps the ice wasn't clean.
assuming that the ice that both shroom & smiley consumed is what caused it, the fact that shroom's feeling only a little bit sick makes me not rush smiley to the hospital straight away, but we're going to keep him inside & quiet for all of today to help his little body recover. at least he's sleeping again. sleep is good.
back in chiang mai - 06:22 AM
(filed under 'general')
so we're back in chiang mai. i so love it here. except for the absence of family, it almost feels like coming home. the weather's been nice in the eighteen or so hours we've been here. rain has been forecast for the whole time we're here, but it hasn't poured down on us yet.
smiley started to get tired quite early last night & after a false start where he got a second wind when i tried to get him to go to sleep, we took him out for a ride around town on a tuktuk & he promptly fell asleep within about ten minutes. we got back to the hotel & he's still asleep (at least as of fifteen minutes ago when i left him upstairs in bed with shroom) more than twelve hours later! i guess he needed to catch up on some sleep as well, because that's a mammoth sleep for him. i had a pretty good sleep, myself. best one i've had in quite a while.
actually, the bed is a bit hard compared to what i'm used to (is it something with the non-western world? it was the same in bahrain) so my back is a bit sore, but aside from that, i feel quite well rested. as for my sore back, it's just as well we're in the land of great massages. lol!! 
bangkok's new international airport - 06:12 AM
(filed under 'general')
one of my site visitors was wondering about suvarnabhumi, the new interntional airport in bangkok. it's quite nice! very airy & open. it's very bright with glass & silver everywhere. the metal beams, the air conditioning system, pipes & support beams are all silvery grey & there's lots of glass around so that there's plenty of natural light. they've decorated it really nicely with heaps of thai art over the walls, very old & very new, but they've mixed them well. there are lots of plants through the place, potted beautifully in free-standing gorgeous clay pots, or set into lovely open-sided wooden cabinets.
from a logistics point of view, apparently they've been having lots of trouble with the movement of baggage (our only bad experience there was probably nothing to do with the international airport, but rather at the other end when shroom's suitcase ended up going to the international carousel at chiang mai instead of the domestic one along with mine. just as well it was such an easy fix!) where it's been taking up to four hours for people to be able to collect their bags.
i did note when we checked in for our flight to chiang mai, that they had a baggage handler stationed at each check in point to unstick the bags as they rolled off the weighing station & onto the main conveyor belt. to me, it looked as though the conveyor belts were just a bit too narrow to allow each piece of baggage to roll off smoothly. you know there's been a mistake made when they have to have an extra staff member at each intersecting point just to make sure the bags keep moving. i guess employing double the original number of staff is still cheaper than ripping up the whole check in area & starting again.
other than that (& our original flight being cancelled, which was probably nothing to do with the new aiport), our experience there was fine & enjoyable. smiley got a bit bored during the three hour wait, but between shroom & i & the miles of travelators, we managed to keep him mostly amused. let's hope our trip back through suvarnabhumi on the way back to brisbane is just as uneventful.
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