We are still in Bangkok. Yesterday we booked the overnight sleeper train from here to Penang on New Years Eve. We were finally able to get a lower berth so Laura doesn't have to climb the ladder to get into her berth. Now, only Jim will break his neck.
This morning we are sitting in the hotel's restaurant and Jim is trying to figure out how to use Picasa on his netbook. We think he has finally downloaded all the photos to his computer and maybe he has the figured out how to upload them to the web. After this paragraph there should be a picture of our hotel, the JL Bangkok. This morning as we were in the hotel's restaurant, drinking free coffee and trying to figure out how to use this blog site, when the owner of the hotel sat down with us. This is a Chinese owned hotel which is managed by the owner's son, with the owner living on site. We also have met the manager's wife and their approximately three year old daughter, who also live here. Quite a family business. The owner also has another son who lives in New York.