Rob: Wow what a cool date the ninth of September 2009 which is commononly written as 09/09/09. Living in Thailand the Thai people have 9 as there lucky number, Nine in Thai sounds like another word which means to go forward to progress like the next level.

Thai people love to celebrate and although the Budhist calendar is now 2552 they didn’t seem to mind using the excuse of borrowing the Christian Year of 2009 to make the date that more special and who can blame them as it is a special date.

For Baimon this was even made more special as she got to celebrate her 9th Birthday on this date. So what do you buy a Thai kid on her 9th Birthday??????

Well Grandma had the answer. A punch bag with some little red gloves. I know in the future I won’t be telling her when to go to bed!

All kids love birthday cake but one thing I did notice tho unlike the kids in England who enjoy ice cream and jelly these kids where tucking in to crabs and shrimps they where eating better than I do.

Happy Birthday Baimon x