THE ONE WHERE WE USE THE BALCONY AS AN OVEN

Alex and I share a tiny studio apartment so we often have to get creative with how we use our space and appliances, or lack there of. We have a fridge, but for cooking all we have is a panini press (a hand me down - don't ask).

Yesterday we wanted to eat the baguette we froze, but we didn't want to wait for it to thaw, nor do we have a microwave/oven to heat it up. Thai improvising: let's hang it outside in the sun to warm it up!


McGuyver over here, setting up our contraption:




Check out that Thai engineering: And here's our multipurpose balcony / bakery / laundromat / greenhouse:




The best part is, it totally worked! Within 45 minutes our bread was thawed, warm and ready to eat.


(Points to you if you got that the title was a reference to Friends, which we've been watching a lot of lately)

SHALL WE BUILD OUR ARK?

As promised, here are some visuals from the flooding this past weekend. The first two photos were taken in the morning, in the neighborhood we pass every day on the way to school. The rest of the photos are from the local park - some show the flooded roads and some show how intensely the river was flowing.




And here's some video. This is the bridge we cross on the way to school every day.

River Flood from Nikki Elizabeth on Vimeo.

And this is the flooding at the park.

Flooding at the park from Nikki Elizabeth on Vimeo.

The best part is all the water has completely disappeared, so Thung Song is slowly getting back to "normal"