The antibiotics have kicked in and Avalon is feeling much better today. We noticed tonight that she has broken out in a fine rash today.. so will call the dr again tomorrow, but probably just part of her upper respiratory virus that the dr diagnosed.
We had breakfast at the hotel (Phranakorn Nornlen has a great chef and the small café turns out some pretty great food). Each day they have a different vege breakfast set with weird and wonderful platters. Yesterday we had 3 types of bruschetta, including a pineapple one which was yumm.. plus eggs, mushrooms, pumpkin soup etc. Today the vege option looked a bit out there for us, so we all got the kids menu of pancakes and eggs. Not bad. They also give you a starter of a different fresh juice and fruits each today. Today's juice was guava and the fruit was rambutans. Avalon pulled the spiky shell off and played with them like they were balls, tossing them around the table, until I nipped that one in the bud! After breakfast we went for a walk and exchanged some cash, then started packing up our room. A quick lunch and then we checked out and headed to our new accommodation which we will stay in for the remainder of our stay in Bangkok. We are really happy with this new hotel.. it's a lovely new boutique sized hotel where the staff are amazingly helpful and attentive. I only booked this hotel this morning, through the site Booking.com and couldn't print our my confirmation email, so was expecting difficulties with the booking, but the lovely man behind the desk had everything printed and ready to sign the minute I mentioned my name. He won Avalon over in 5 seconds flat after he produced a piece of cake for her and the bellboy whisked our luggage up the elevator and to our nice quiet room away from the noisy street frontage. Very very impressed and will definitely stay here again! Although Phranakorn has a lot of charm about it, I got really sick of lugging Avalon and bags up three set of un-airconditioned stairs everytime we needed to go to our room!! Plus, the rooms really are starting to get a little tired..
Anyway, enough about accommodation! Since we got here and settled too late to visit the Grand Palace today, we decided to keep that for tomorrow and instead got a taxi to Siam Paragon shopping complex where we spent the afternoon at Ocean World. Avalon was soooo excited to see all the fishies and sharks. At Phranakorn there is a small pathway through ferns and plants and everytime we walked through it she would say we were going through the jungle and might see tigers or elephants or possums. At Ocean World there is a 'jungle section' styled like you're walking in the Amazon, that both Sol and Avalon were pretty darn excited about! Avalon didn't see tigers, but there were lots of cool animals like otters and sea rat things called Nutria (I think?!), Chameleons and penguins etc etc. Solomon was especially taken with the glass tunnel you walk through that is under the water and you see huge sharks swimming all around you. Avalon's FAVE part though, was a fake shell that you could crawl inside for a photo op! Very easily please, indeed.
We had breakfast at the hotel (Phranakorn Nornlen has a great chef and the small café turns out some pretty great food). Each day they have a different vege breakfast set with weird and wonderful platters. Yesterday we had 3 types of bruschetta, including a pineapple one which was yumm.. plus eggs, mushrooms, pumpkin soup etc. Today the vege option looked a bit out there for us, so we all got the kids menu of pancakes and eggs. Not bad. They also give you a starter of a different fresh juice and fruits each today. Today's juice was guava and the fruit was rambutans. Avalon pulled the spiky shell off and played with them like they were balls, tossing them around the table, until I nipped that one in the bud! After breakfast we went for a walk and exchanged some cash, then started packing up our room. A quick lunch and then we checked out and headed to our new accommodation which we will stay in for the remainder of our stay in Bangkok. We are really happy with this new hotel.. it's a lovely new boutique sized hotel where the staff are amazingly helpful and attentive. I only booked this hotel this morning, through the site Booking.com and couldn't print our my confirmation email, so was expecting difficulties with the booking, but the lovely man behind the desk had everything printed and ready to sign the minute I mentioned my name. He won Avalon over in 5 seconds flat after he produced a piece of cake for her and the bellboy whisked our luggage up the elevator and to our nice quiet room away from the noisy street frontage. Very very impressed and will definitely stay here again! Although Phranakorn has a lot of charm about it, I got really sick of lugging Avalon and bags up three set of un-airconditioned stairs everytime we needed to go to our room!! Plus, the rooms really are starting to get a little tired..
Anyway, enough about accommodation! Since we got here and settled too late to visit the Grand Palace today, we decided to keep that for tomorrow and instead got a taxi to Siam Paragon shopping complex where we spent the afternoon at Ocean World. Avalon was soooo excited to see all the fishies and sharks. At Phranakorn there is a small pathway through ferns and plants and everytime we walked through it she would say we were going through the jungle and might see tigers or elephants or possums. At Ocean World there is a 'jungle section' styled like you're walking in the Amazon, that both Sol and Avalon were pretty darn excited about! Avalon didn't see tigers, but there were lots of cool animals like otters and sea rat things called Nutria (I think?!), Chameleons and penguins etc etc. Solomon was especially taken with the glass tunnel you walk through that is under the water and you see huge sharks swimming all around you. Avalon's FAVE part though, was a fake shell that you could crawl inside for a photo op! Very easily please, indeed.
Avalon photobombing a Japanese family's photo
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