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!

Hey Jessica, sorry I’m not there for your 12th birthday, I hope you have a wonderful day, love you! And save some Tacos, beans and rice for me!!! (I wish!)

Cousin Shacky

Lindsay, Mom, Stevie, Mimi, Grandma, all you girlys, I love you more than anything!!! Miss you all and hope you treat yourselves to something nice. Love you!

PS. supposedly there was a cake-off competition for Mothers day, here are the 2 cake entries:

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and the 2 sets of contestants were (I’m assuming?):

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My vote is going to be based on: 1. taste (well, looks of taste since I’m not there to actually taste, 2. appearance and 3. personality of the cake………………with that being said my vote goes to………………………..

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by the way I dont know who made which cake
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MY VOTE = because, it looks much to fattening and smothered with frosting that it’s just got to be tasting SOOOOOOOO good haha

BUT both cakes are very nice, and look delicious, wish I could have been there to stuff my face with you all and to celebrate the awesome mothers in our family Love ya’s!

Oh, and if the cake I voted for is NOT Maddie’s cake, then I change my vote to the other cake instead

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

Happy Cinco de Mayo my fellow mexicanos

Enjoy so Dos Equis and Corona’s, some tamales, some enchiladas, some beans and sopa, some tostadas covered with beans, chease and chorizo, some gorditas, some m