Zoo..m

We are here at the Zoo! There are several Oxfam shop animals, including a dog with literally no back half, yet he still manages to walk around with just his front legs, he is called Bruce, and i quite like him, a tiger called Meow, who walks very shakily, and many more healthy Gibbons, Loris', Bears, Otters (one called Pirate- sure to be a favourite), crocodile (this lives just outside our room (in a cage)), and some random other things. We will be working 6.30am until 5pm with an hour for lunch and an hour for breakfast, so it'll be hard work for sure. However, it is simply just the next adventure in the series for Xss and I.

It was our wedding anniversary on the 3rd and Xss took me to a roof top restaurant at the Banyan tree which was lovely, as I got a rose and a cocktail served in dry ice afterwards! Really great. The view of Bangkok was ok, but the view of Xss was better! hahah. Four years in and he is increasingly a bigger and better friend than i ever dreamed of. Anyway, we then stayed at the Bangkok Hilton (hotel not prison) on the 6th as this was the night we arrived on our honeymoon there, mostly thanks to me booking flights on the wrong day. That's why I'm not a real adult.

So this morning at 10am a Thai man in a woolly hat (its not warm enough for him, its only 34 degrees C) and shades arrived and hung around outside the Hilton in his 'car' to collect us and bring us to the Zoo. I say car as it was really a sound system on wheels. This guy can afford a speaker system that nearly fills his car (Xss's feet were on the bass speaker and mine on the mixing box), but cannot afford to fix the massive crack in his windscreen! As we drove through Bangkok he buckled up his seat belt into the passenger side seat as his was missing (presumably taken out to make room for the microphone and Karaoke system he is installing next week), but then promptly unbuckled as soon as we were out of town. It was a great reminder of all that we have been away from for the previous few weeks whilst staying with Xss's parents. We have easily adopted part of Thai culture- just go with the flow, it'll all work out in the end. We arrived at the Zoo in one piece. Objective achieved.