We r in!!

I am sitting on the big couch in the living room and it is dark out already, 6:03 pm. Deeds is bringing home some take out as she is just leaving the downtown office. Take out - that's funny. Most good food can be bought on the street here, not sure if that is take out or not?? I guess a lot of food here is called take home.

We slept in our place for the first time last night. Was really nice. What a great breeze we have blowing through the place. Deeds had a glass of wine on our monstrous patio last night, I was drinking water. Spent the afternoon representing Thanachart Bank at a golf tourney. Seems none of the working stiffs could afford to take a day off so they called retired guy to fill in for them. What a great day it was. Perfect weather, nice breeze blowin and I shot 84 with 3 three putts!! So things were good. Won absolutely nothing though. I am not that guy. They were raffling off an iPad, a 32" flat panel tv, trips to islands and stuff. I won absolutely nothing. My brother once won a toaster at a church bazar or was that bingo? Can't remember it was that long ago slansky won anything. Ow wait, I did win a draw for nephew Kyle's hockey team. Take it all back. One of the luckiest guys around. Hehehe! No seriously I feel like I am. Don't give a shite about that other stuff. Also allows me to leave early cause I know!!

Deeds gave me a call early on Tuesday morning about the golf. "Do you thinkyou could take someones place at the tournament? she asked. I had just got my clubs out of hock the night before and was itching to go. "Well let me take a look at my calendar" I said. Hmm, Busy on Tuesdays as usual, rest of the day looks like nothin, tomorrow, yep dawn till dusk, nothin. :I'm in" I shouted.

So Deeds gave me the contact info and I got hold of Kuhn Bobby to see what the details were.
"Just meet us at the hotel and you can catch a ride in the van with the rest of my staff". "What time do I need to be there" I questioned. "Well we want to be away by 4:45 so it would be good if you showed up at about 4:30"
Now you know Bangkok is a very lively town. But even BKK is closed down and quiet at that hour. This is early and it was very tough, but that is what crazy golfers do around here to tee off at 7. It was a one hour ride, breakfast and then walk out to the 9th tee for the shotgun start. I played in a fivesome. Which is rather typical here. We walked, which was nice. So like a real 18 holes for me, cause I don't push or pull a cart, I have an electronic caddy, this time I had a Thai caddy. She pulled my clubs all around. Gave advice on putts and cleaned and pampered the golf gear. On top of that I met three awesome guys from Japan. They were ex US military who have all retired there. They fly in to play in this tournament every year. A charity event that results in building schools in the north of Thailand. Great cause. Raised 1,000,000 Baht, which will build a five room school house complete with desks, blackboards, etc.
It was an awesome day with these guys. What great fun we had, teasing the thai caddies and just joking and tellin stories. After the tournament festivites I was looking for a ride home, didn't want to stick around waiting for Khun Bobby and his staff as they were kinda cleaning up. So I went to one of the Americans, he still works with the military, servicing the US embassies in asia. So he hooked me up with a van full of marines who work at the US embassy here in BKK. They had no trouble giving me a seat and being all What can I do for you sir. Are you comfy back there sir. Was real cool. They were all 20 - 24 ish. Not real tv, story book, kick you butt type marines. But marines nonetheless. Saved me about an hour and after getting up at 4 in the morning, it was a godsend for me.

I missed a chance to play with the guys from Japan on the weekend though cause I thought I was going to Phuket today. That kinda fell through because Kara and Julie lost, now they are coming to BKK a day early so I had no real reason to go there just for one day?! On top of that I have a bit of a cold coming on, been fighting it for two or three days and there was a ton of stuff to do and shopping as well for the apartment.
Things are shaping up. This blog is proof we now have internet. We got gas delivered to day and maybe have some drinking water for next week. Otherwise we just buy huge ol jugs and cart them up the elevator ourselves. In todays shopping adventure I was assisted by our driver Phatsin (pronounced pat-cin). Always helps when you have someone who can read the labels!!
Now I know I promised pics as soon as we got here. However, the place is a little bit of a mess. We are trying to clean up for Kara's return and unpack and blah blah blah. So pictures later.
Sawadee Krup