The calendar still says January, which means we're still within the reasonable time limit for putting up a New Year's post. We got to spend New Year's Eve 2011 in the southern beach town of Ao Nang. The weather here was definitely better than last New Year's Eve, when we were in Vermont.
Here we are at our New Year's Eve gala dinner. This event was organized by our resort, Peace Laguna. They put on a show, with traditional Thai singing and dancing (and also some not-so-traditional singing... it was an interesting mix of Asian, European, and American pop music.)
They also gave us goofy party hats. Awesome.
After dinner, we went out on the town in Ao Nang - still wearing our goofy hats, of course. The streets were quite lively with tourists, speaking various languages in various states of drunkenness. Some enterprising locals had the brilliant idea of setting up stalls to sell "Thai pancakes". A Thai pancake is a thin crepe that's been filled with some kind of sweet thing - banana and Nutella, for example - then folded over on itself several times. They were as good as any late-night food in the US. We should import them.
Shortly before the bell tolled midnight, we ran into another vendor who was selling Thai sky lanterns. We bought a few lanterns and went out onto the beach, where we lit them and watched them drift up into the sky. Hopefully they'll bring us good luck in 2011.
Here we are at our New Year's Eve gala dinner. This event was organized by our resort, Peace Laguna. They put on a show, with traditional Thai singing and dancing (and also some not-so-traditional singing... it was an interesting mix of Asian, European, and American pop music.)
They also gave us goofy party hats. Awesome.
After dinner, we went out on the town in Ao Nang - still wearing our goofy hats, of course. The streets were quite lively with tourists, speaking various languages in various states of drunkenness. Some enterprising locals had the brilliant idea of setting up stalls to sell "Thai pancakes". A Thai pancake is a thin crepe that's been filled with some kind of sweet thing - banana and Nutella, for example - then folded over on itself several times. They were as good as any late-night food in the US. We should import them.
Shortly before the bell tolled midnight, we ran into another vendor who was selling Thai sky lanterns. We bought a few lanterns and went out onto the beach, where we lit them and watched them drift up into the sky. Hopefully they'll bring us good luck in 2011.
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Just wanted to say that I have been really enjoying reading about all of your adventures. And of course that I am jealous as I look out at over a foot of snow. In my PJs that I have been wearing for a day now..sigh...
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