Tony, my Dad, and I all drove down to Florida today to meet up with Stevie and her family, (and also my Mom and niece Maddie and Nephew Payton flew in). It was a 16 hour drive but it flew right by (good thing they let me sleep for half the drive hehehe)

Looking forward for the next days spending with family, beach, and my doggies.

Great to be here!

June 20th - June 23rd, I went to visit 2 of my awesomest friends Shayda and Jamie in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, had an awesome blast every single night we were there. I cant wait for the next meeting

Been travelling, flying, bus’s, taxi’s, trains, waiting, sleeeping, etc for the past 50 hours, but now FINALLY arrived back in the Quad Cities! Cant wait to see everybody

By the way, my arrival was a 100% surprise to my Mommy, here is the story and pictures hehe

Hope ya’ll are doing great!

On Monday May 5th my friend Felix married his long time Thai girlfriend in her city province of Nakhon Nayok, Thailand, it’s a small city about 2 hours northeast from Bangkok. Here are some of the Thai dishes we feasted on, chicken curry, lots of spicey soups, and some good coconut based desserts too!

It was SO SO SO hot walking around in 100+ degree weather, sun blazing on our faces, so any chance at finding a shadow was jumped on!!! LOL

Here is all the money given to the wife’s family, it’s traditional for the husband to marry the wife and give a “Dowry” to the family, to be honest I think it’s ridiculous for anyone to pay any family for any marriage hehe

Here is all of us at the 7pm reception type of thing, there was a TON of people that attended, approx 1000 people, we were the only farangs (foreigners) there of course, had tons of Thai whiskey, Vodka, traditional Thai dancers, good band, and an extremely large amount of delicious food, like those shrimps in the pics

During my friends weding, there was a break with nothing to do for 5 hours, so we decided to pass the time by going to Dream World. We went into the snow land area, to go sledding in freezing cold weather and even snow! And no I didnt win that doll for Prissana, my Aussie friend Gregor did LOL

Yesterday (April 23rd), I did another VISA run to Poipet, Cambodia, it’s a border town between Thailand and Cambo, they have a ton of casinos all packed in there, lots of tourists go there from Thailand because in Thailand gambling is illegal. So anyways, went there and finally wanted to check out a casino, I chose the Grand Diamond City Hotel and Casino, went inside and I was surprised to see how nice and big it was, it had 6 roulette tables (my favorite), so I sat down, began wheeling and dealing, walked away after winning 8000 baht!

Talk about a beautiful place? Phuket Beach, Koh Phi Phi, Maya Bay in Thailand, SO beautiful, it’s an island off the coast of Phuket Island, have you seen the movie “The Beach“? With Leonardo DeCaprio, well that movie was shot at this gorgeous place, hope you like my pics It was truly a lovely place!

On this day we went on a Klong Tour on the Chao Phraya River here in Bangkok, Thailand, it was nice, seen some cool stuff, Heidi met another love of her life, the little monkey thing, a gibbon, what was his name Heidi? Anyways, he was soooooo cute. So, we got to see the aligators just chillin, and the snake show was kinda neat, they milk the venom from the snakes, got a great pic of that. So, sippin’ on some coconuts, we continued down the river again, and got off on a dock, that charged us about 50 cents each for just landing at their dock, hehe, gotta make their bucks somehow I guess right?

After the klong tour we went right nearby to see the HUGE shiny Buddha monument inside the famous Wat Pho, it was like my gazillionth time there, but I thought T&H would like to see this huge thing. We covered a lot of ground that day didnt we???

I’m having internet problems at my hotel right now, so cant upload the pics yet, coming VERY soon though

Tony, Heidi and I hitup Wat Traimit in Bangkok, Thailand (Shayda remember that golden buddha? where ya at biotch!) took a couple souvineir pictures and then walked over to Chinatown, walked all around checking out the delicious looking raw fish and markets. Tiring, boring, yet interesting time

Thank G*D i dont live with Mom around now, she’d go apeshit if she seen my room looking like this!!!! HAHA! Just think Mommy, this is the kind of stuff that would HAVE to be at home for a couple weeks when I get there! Still want me home? (just joking, I know you do )

Anyways, I’m back from the 3 week trip in Cebu, Manila, Boracay Philippines and also up northern Thailand, I got a new camera (testing it now) and new little travel laptop (the little black thing in the middle of the desk called an Asus EEE PC, it’s cute), hope I dont look too much like a geek

Love ya’s

Zach

Bye bye Philippines and hello Thailand! FYI for the family, I’m heading back to Bangkok tonight at the 10pm Cebu Pacific Air flight, so I will be calling everyone VERY soon

Love ya’s!

Zach

I’m now here in Cebu Philippines and enjoyed an awesome time during their yearly Sinulog festival, the festival, parade, shows, and parties combined involve approx 1 million people crowding in the streets, watching the bands, etc etc, we of course are drinking our ice cold San Mig Lights hehe, having a blast! Then afterwards we hitup Pump nightclub til 6am. Great time, great fest as always!

Chillin in Khon Kaen for a few days, my 1st time ever to get up to Northeast Thailand, so far so good. Staying at Kosa Hotel, it seems decent.

Going to the Tukcom Miss Motor Show competition tomorrow and the next day

Been partying, drinking our Singha Beer at this nice big nightclub called U Bar, but it sucks because U Bar closes at only 2am

I will post pictures of this trip soon

Well, it’s been GREAT to see everyone, my family, my friends, my dogs, my niggaz and my bitches!!! Especially those that came back into town to be here in QC! Great to see you all, oh, and ESPECIALLY i met finally my newest nephew Levi while i was in Pensacola!

But, the time flew right by, time to head back to Bangkok, I have another life away from the QC, and to be honest, to choose QC or any other place to live i’d choose the NOT QC place, this place is trouble, great to be home, but i am happy to not be living here

just my 2cents

Hope to see everyone if i can make it back in December!!!

TOMORROW!!!!!!!!