Sunday, May 10, 2015

HOT Thailand Trip, My 32nd Birthday & Mother's Day Fun!

I had a safe and fairly uneventful trip to Thailand Sunday through Friday this past week.  It was HOT but great meetings with good people!  We did some site seeing but it was so hot (120 with humidity) that I took far fewer pictures than Rome.  I am so glad to be home and now battling the wonderful Asia Pacific region jet lag!
Super Sketch Boat Ride to the Grand Palace

 Grand Palace


 Reclining Buddha
 View from the Restaurant on Wednesday Evening

Friday - I landed at 130p on Friday.  Clint was super sweet and hung around the airport an extra hour after a security based meeting he had there over lunch so that he could pick me up.  He took me back to my car at the Cargill hangar and then we parted ways again so he could finish the work day.  I on the other hand had to try to stay awake, unpack and get to Maci's daycare by 330p for Mommy & Child Mother's Day snack time.  While I wasn't sure what time of day it was and my head was spinning, Maci and I had a lovely pudding snack together and she gave me a super sweet card and homemade body scrub (which she keeps telling me is yummy, I am worried she ate it while they made it !! HAHA)  After snack time we headed home but daddy would be about another 45 mins so we took a walk around the block to help me stay awake with fresh air and sunshine.  Once Clint was home we went to Chick Fil A which was something I had been craving for my belated birthday dinner :)  We ended the evening with wonderful birthday presents before I crashed on the couch.
I did get to have a special cake on my actual birthday in Thailand thanks to Anand remembering!!!

Picking her Favorite "Yellow Flowers" on our Walk

Saturday - What a gorgeous day!!  This was one of our families usual Saturdays mixed in with gorgeous weather.  We started with Gym class, headed to breakfast, took a nap and then ran errands/cleaned the house before eating dinner outside and Maci playing on the swing set with her neighbor friend Nora.

Sunday - Happy Mother's Day and HOLY JET LAG!  Last night I couldn't get to sleep until 3a =(  That made for a ROUGH morning.  Clint was sweet and got us brunch reservations for 930a which would usually not be a struggle but it took everything in me to roll out of bed in time to get to brunch.  While there I wanted to sleep on the table and could barely function UGH!  After brunch, I came home and took a nap but forced myself to get back up by 1230p so that I hopefully sleep tonight.  While I was sleeping Clint and Maci played on my sweet Mother's Day gift.  Clint got me a new hammock for our hammock stand since our former one broke a few years back.  It was rainy most of the day here so after I got up Maci was ready for her nap and took almost a 3 hour nap thanks to the weather.  While she napped, Clint and I finished the Wonder Years, spoke to both our mothers and then headed to Chipotle for some quick dinner once Maci arose.  We are now wrapping up a nice weekend back together and preparing for a fairly hectic with global Finance's HR team meetings but at least I am at home this week!!  We are about half way through the month + of Mondell family craziness and so far so good!

Lots of Love, 
C, K & M


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