to the land of smiles!! - Day 1

it is the march school holidays and we were deciding where to bring the kids..

initially, we wanted to do a staycation at sentosa but the whole 3D2N affair with attractions thrown in is not as cheap as we thought.

so we were thinking why not top up abit more and go for a short trip.

it makes sense then. it still does to the husband but not to me anyway...

cos NOT when you factor in all the shopping that i usually do when overseas....

ANYWAY, we had decided to go BKK given its proximity to singapore.

it will be the first for the boys and 8 LONG years since hubbi and i last visited it in 2005!

has it been that long?!??!

at that time, platinum mall was not around yet can you imagine?! LOL

it was a short relaxed trip for all of us. 

so it was a good trip afterall.

waiting for boarding time at T3

we took the afternoon flight to BKK on saturday. 

would have preferred an earlier flight but promotional tickets have limited timing..

touched down in a jiffy in 2 hours! 

the flight was smooth and the journey from the airport to our hotel - novotel @ siam sq - was pretty fast to my expectations (around 25mins with a little traffic jam nearer to the city centre).

 on cab to our hotel - excited boys who cant wait to go to the hotel!

they love the hotel so much that during the trip, they kept requesting to go back hotel to rest. zzzz

the room was spacious enough for our family with 2 super single beds.

after some freshening up, its time for dinner!

ive made reservations at this supposedly popular restaurant - ban khun mae - which is just opposite our hotel.

and it was a good thing that we made reservations.

perhaps its saturday and the timing is peak period, there were 10+ people queuing outside the restaurant and were told to wait at least an hour for their turn.

we got our table pretty fast and we ordered a set which has a few choices of the standard thai staples:

- green curry

- spring rolls

- chicken in pandan leaves etc

the food was pretty decent especially the green curry and the prawn spring roll.

but it's not like a must to recommend to anyone.

though i must say their thai iced tea is one of the best ive tasted during our time there. 

thick and sweet - the way i like it!

after dinner, it was time to explore around siam square area.

the shops were interesting enough but with 2 cranky kiddos (with bad naps on flight), it was rather challenging.

our day 1 in BKK was rather slow and smooth. good.