Straight On To The Blog Today,

as I have a real hangover,

well it was a triple birthday party, firstly Diana's,

and Maureen's and mine, not all on the same day but we combined the three of them, Diana's on the 28th, Maureen's on the 26th and mine cancelled because of the Songkran celebrations on April 14th, above Nick, Maureen, Mick, Eric and Big Jim,

Diana and Mass, Grieg and his lady Noi also arrived on their motorbike,

we hired a baht bus to ferry us all there, the driver on the right,

Mick and our next door neighbour,

Eric, Nick and Maureen,

Grieg following on his bike,

everybody say 'Ah!',

Big Jim, Mass and our ex-maid,

on the way to Prechai it came over a bit cloudy, but luckily the rain held off,

we all arrived safe and sound,

the restaurant has spent more than a few baht having sand brought in to cover the beach,

Mass, Mick and Maureen, the first of the food had arrived, steamed shrimp and tom yang gung, (not sure about the spelling of that one!),

steamed mussells,

Anchisa and Riza,

also there was Brian and Sa along with Juu and his wife,

by now we all tucking into the food and drink,

Mark and Mike in the foreground,

blah kapong and small clams arrived later,

along with garlic fried rock lobsters,

curried crab,

we were expecting a nice sunset, but there was no red clouds as usual tonight,

Mass, Anchisa and Riza all getting into party mode,

as was big Jim our neighbour and the maid!

Porn and Craig with their kids and friend also popped in,

more red wine for the ladies!

guess who likes Mick!

at the last count it was three 3 liter boxes and three 2 liter bottles of wine, plus beer and heaven knows how much vodka!

everybody had a great time,

then it was time to go, our taxi driver arrived and we were off,

Eric was enjoying himself on the way home,

smiles all round,

it was just like being on holiday!

then back to 388 for a night cap,

and time to open up presents, Diana in her new dress,

with some beautiful flowers and even more presents,

some very nice jewelry,

Diana just can not wait to see what is inside,

Anchisa and Diana,

more presents!

and lots of cards,

with more presents inside them!

and perfumed candles,

and this was from me to Diana, the present that I had wrapped a couple of days ago,

oh no, another one!

and not forgetting it was Maureen's birthday as well, also I had a few nice surprises as well as friends also remembered my 60th, all too soon the evening was over, our friends and neighbors left, from Diana and myself a very big thank you to everyone for the presents and more importantly your company and good wishes, we all had a wonderful evening, but for me now I have to have a lay down - too much red wine!