We decided to just head to the beach town of Hua Hin to catch some sun. It is the beach city that the locals go to by bus or mini bus as it is only 2.5 hours south of Bangkok. It was lovely, but there was a typhoon in the Philippines that affected the weather all over Asia. So the first g'day was cloudy - BUT that did not affect the rays as both of is turned quite pink while reading by the pool! We went to the night market and were astounded by the huge amount...

After seeing mom off we moved to our next guesthouse the Lemonseed. It had received good reviews on Trip Advisor so we booked it. At first we were not very happy, it seemed like we were stuck in some small backalley just off some busy Bangkok street but the room was large and very clean...and the small restaurant in the guesthouse serves up a mean PadThai (a Traditional Thai dish) Once the owner (a brit and his very friendly Thai wife) clued us in we found out...

For mom's last country we are stopping in Bangkok! She leaves on Thursday and we want to make the most of of her time. We are staying in a crazy cool hotel called the Shanghai mansion Boutique Hotel. Voted top hotel for service in 2010 and you can tell! Unbelievable decor, great breakfasts- western, Asian breakfast delicacies (SOOOO tasty!!) and muesili etc...it's in Chinatown so we were in the thick of things. Non stop action all around us! We went down the s...