I got the email this morning congratulating the children and making their World Record Official. It is the World Record breaking site that they found the record on and Sebastian could not be more excited. I am still working on Guiness but am so happy they got recognised here. Super proud of them all!
It was 10 years ago that at this time Juan (Luis's best friend) descended upon on for a two week stay in Phuket. Little did I know that he entered on a one way ticket and stayed 6 weeks. After that I renamed a one way ticket to Juan way ticket and ensured all visitors now had a return flight. We have come a long way since then and my love for Juan has only grown over the years! He has come to stay with us now for 9 days (I did not even ask to verify the return) and it has been great having him. Wednesday I joined him and Luis for an evening out.
We woke up on Sunday to another beautiful day. We had a lovely morning and even a mini triathlon. It was not meant to be race but of course it was a race. I was thankful that Sebastian one is age group in his head otherwise the tears would have come. We also got home in exactly two hours as a new super highway opened. It was great to have Aloni and family here with us.
Saturday night was the most magical. The 8 children all on their own decided to try and break the world record for largest marshmallow roasting stick. They did not even tell us that they looked up the current one and the rules to break it. They all worked as a team to find the largest one and brainstormed ways to accurately measure the length of the stick, and find away to get it over the fire. It was truly brilliant. There was little arguing, an immense amount of collaborating and then a lot of celebrating. I have done my best to submit everything so have to watch this space!
On Friday other families arrived and the real fun began, we had a lovely day at the site on Friday and then Saturday we headed over to Little Italy. Khao Yai is wonderfully bizarre, it has various sections that are made to look like places in Europe. We see places modeled after France, Italy, Sweden, the UK and probably many more I have not come across. It is surreal real as some places get it pretty spot. I had never been to Toscana before, and we all decided to check it out for lunch on Saturday. I am not sure I would stay in the area but it was so nice to see and indeed it felt like we were in Italy.
LaLa Muhka is probably one of my top spots in Thailand. I host the Olympics there every year and the children just love it. They get to be so independent and have so much fun being outside the entire time. Luis was off to Vietnam to see his friend so he missed this trip but I did tell him that I really only saw Sebastian at bed time and if he was hungry or thirsty. We arrived Thursday night and some play and then headed to bed waking up crazy early to a beautiful day.
On Wednesday we were lucky enough to welcome another special visitor, Kendall from our time at LIS in The Bahamas. She is now working in KL, Malaysia and came to Bangkok for their half term. We were so happy to see her and remember all our times together at LIS as she started the same year we did. She had two other friends that joined and Nadia came as well. It was also great to see Nadia as I I have seen her only twice seen we have been back. And she lives one street over! Things just get so busy. But we all had a nice night telling stories over some of our favourite Thai food.
