Our first 2 days in Thailand (spoiler, Thai orthodontists are highly recommended)

As first days go, it probably wasn't what we expected.

In our minds, we probably had visions of palaces, pad thai and pineapple.

In reality, it turned out to be downpours, dentists and disagreements.

We arrived at 7am, after a great flight which was 25% full.  Plenty of room for everyone to spread out and rest.

We then arrived at the hotel around 8.30am, room would be available at 2pm which wasn't ideal but normal.  We headed out for some breakfast and then went back to the hotel at 10am to check if the room might be ready earlier.  It was and so at 10am, we got the room and had some time to get organised and relax, plan the day ahead.

Then it happened.

Mili broke her retainer.  First day away for 9 months and she broke the only thing we couldn't go out and replace in a shop.

So we then spent the next few hours trying to find an orthodontist and then taking a Tuk Tuk over to the Siam area to see what could be done.  There, they told us we would need to come back the next day for an appointment.

The rest of the day was spent being a bit ratty with each other - partly down to tiredness, partly the retainer saga, partly the weather - and in the end we spent our time eating and shopping for some things we hadn't brought with from Israel.

Not what we had expected.

Day 2 started with much more positive energy, we headed back at the orthodontist, getting Mili fitted for her new retainer (which will be ready in a week when we return from Kanchanaburi), then decided to take the kids bowling to let them blow off some steam before walking over to Chinatown for some great street-food.

While in Chinatown, we also experienced something which we've got used to happening most days i n Israel.  We were standing at a food stall and 2 local women start looking at Guy and laughing, saying something which sounded like 'Yam Yam'.  We asked them what it meant, they pointed at his eyelashes and said "very long, very long'.  The fanciful plan of Guy modelling his way around SE Asia to pay for our travels just got a step closer.

More street-food back near our hotel and we decided to call it a day.

To be honest, the allocated food budget for the next 2 weeks has just been spent at the orthodontist so rations are in short supply.