Asia through the eyes of a country girl: Christmas in Bangkok

We put our tree up the weekend after Thanksgiving!

And it rotates - no, not really as fast as it looks - Joe played around with the camera settings again! But yes it does rotate and it plays Christmas Carols - this was an inheritance from my Godmother Marie and is truly an antique!

Our Christmas stockings hanging on our bookcase mantle - and I'm sure you are wondering who Allen is. So Allen is one of Joe's best friends - if you were at our wedding he was the short little bald headed one! He lives abroad as well and left about a year before we did. He asked me for a Christmas stocking then so I made him one. I thought I had mailed it to him but had not. When we were unpacking all our decorations we found it and decided to hang it up with our stockings. His ears must have been burning as the next day he contacted us to ask what we were doing for Christmas and if we'd be around. Turned out he was "possibly" going to be on a business trip to Bangkok around Christmas and if so, he'd stay and spend it with us - we were quite excited. In the end though - his trip was postponed so he now won't be here until mid January - when both Joe and I are traveling! Oh well!

Pretty Christmas lights just outside of Siam Paragon Mall. We are standing on the BTS platform just outside the mall looking down on them!

Same same but different as they say in Thailand! This rudolph the gold nosed reindog - I mean reindeer lives at Central World Mall in Bangkok.

Just outside of Central World Mall in Bangkok.

The tree outside of Central World Mall in Bangkok.

Even the palm trees were decorated at Central World Mall in Bangkok.

Christmas Gifts With Style sign - just outside of Central World Mall in Bangkok.

An Advertisement for The Christmas Carol Movie with Jim Carey in THAI. Much to our dismay they only had this movie the first couple weeks of December. We were waiting to go see it Christmas week - much to our dismay - it was gone! I guess it'll have to be a rental.