nong nooch - day trip

I give the credit for this album to the lead-guitarist of PINC - Janice. She was the one who thought this up and invited the rest to take a day off at Pattaya in honor of her mom who was dropping by from Africa on her way to the Philippines.

Nong Nooch has been beckoning to us ever since we set foot in the kingdom of King Bhumibol, but we had other sites to see and we thought that this garden was just like the hundreds of parks scattered around Thailand. Yesterday proved that this was exceptional from the usual and that you can't get all of it in just one visit. I took about the equivalent of 5 rolls of film... but I decided to post just enough to tell a short story.

Please click on the first photo to get the rest of the story... better yet click "slideshow" for a larger view of the details.

Sunflowers, AIDS, Monkeys & Kings

What do you do on the last sunday of november if you were in Thailand? Noods and Inday Budayao had a good answer for that and Sherwin and I quickly agreed with them. our trip took us to the 4 things mentioned in the title, and the sunday turned out to be a pleasant and enlightening one.