Copenhagen view

This is from my hotel window.

Damark & Sweden trip

I am in Gothenburg, Sweden now. We landed in Copenhagen, Danmark this morning as a part of our Univ. research trip. We will be here for 5 more night before heading back to Bangkok.

Wang-Trakrai Waterfall

We just came back from a one night camping trip to Wang-Tra-Krai waterfall park, 100 miles northeast of Bangkok. It is one of the nearest mountain we can go from Bangkok. We stayed in a simple but decent cabin with a simple equipped kitchen. So Tone and I got to cook our own breakfast this morning and I got to sketch them. I did bring along a big sketchbook for Iris for her to draw as you shall see one of her drawing.

#1 trees -- a plein air of the stream and the mountain backdrop in the evening last light, watercolor


#2 treat -- When we arrived to our cabin, they put a simple glass bowl with wild yellow flowers in the room to greet us, watercolor & Stabilo brown pen


#3 breakfast -- This was what we cooked. Poor Tone had to wait a few minutes for me to sketch before he could eat, color pencils


#4 public space -- Done by Iris to depict our rental cabin with our car parked near by, the right most were Tone and I busy cooking. The middle green face was Iris. Color pencils.



Here are some highlights of the trip:

Wahkor Aquarium

Our semester has ended. So we left Bangkok yesterday morning, drove thru HuaHin, our usual spot further down two more hours to BanKrut beach. It is very very quiet but also very nature. We like it. We found out that there is an aquarium 40 Km. away. So we planned to take Iris there. And Walla... !!!

This is about 7x9 inch watercolor sketch, done life in front of the giant tank at Wahkor Aquarium, Prachuab Kirikhan. It took me about 35 minutes at the tank and I did the blue background at the resort. The remaining pics are us on the beach at the resort in the calm morning. We love you all and miss you and sending you our peaceful positive vibe.

Hua Hin Beach Holiday, Thailand

In early October we took a three-day vacation to a seaside town called Hua Hin, only two hour drive from Bangkok. It is a much need relaxation as I foresee a lot of works in what supposed to be our two-week semester break. I was glad we can squeeze in this mini trip. We enjoyed McDonald and Gelato in Hua Hin town, before showing Iris how to play with sand and I jumped in the waves with her. Last year Iris refused to touch the sand but no problem this year. I got to run on the beach, which was in one of my wish list to do there. We had a good seafood dinner at Hua Hin night market, where an old lady weaving some coconut leaves up as a giant Mantis and show to Iris. The following day we explore more on the Khao Ta Kieb fishing village and the temple. We had another lunch by the beach observing the fisher men working with their boats. We were so glad that there were still school of fishes to see from the beach.