{"id":147,"date":"2009-07-12T05:18:08","date_gmt":"2009-07-12T09:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/blog\/?p=147"},"modified":"2010-01-28T00:32:36","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T04:32:36","slug":"second-last-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/blog\/?p=147","title":{"rendered":"Second last day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Shopping was once again the order of the day for most \u00e2\u20ac\u201c though we didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see Matt or Sarah until dinner time \u00e2\u20ac\u201c they had a quiet one. Once again we all went our separate ways to find that last minute bargain. Mark and Bron got to MBK at 10 just as the doors were opening. Allira a Mel had their eyelashes \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcextended\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a bargain at just $25. <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thailandmusings.com\/images\/siam%20paragon.JPG?resize=327%2C268\" alt=\"Siam Paragon\" width=\"327\" height=\"268\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Later in the afternoon we spent some time across the road at Siam Square, a great shopping precinct for the young ones, and Allira vowed to return the following day with all the girls. There were even more bargain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s to be had \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the shopping never ends. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Afternoon tea at Siam Paragon with a magnificent French cake that we always have when we are are in Bangkok. We caught up for drinks with Tom, Donna, Greg and Carolyn in Tom and Donnas\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 room followed by very late dinner at Manna in Siam Paragon. Back to the hotel for a night cap. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Mark and Bron caved at about midnight, followed soon after by Greg, but Carolyn, Donna and Tom kicked on, joined by Duncan, Logan and Sarah, and danced and imbibed until the early hours.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">\u00c2\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shopping was once again the order of the day for most \u00e2\u20ac\u201c though we didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see Matt or Sarah until dinner time \u00e2\u20ac\u201c they had a quiet one. Once again we all went our separate ways to find that last minute bargain. Mark and Bron got to MBK at 10 just as the doors were &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/blog\/?p=147\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Second last day!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}