It’s the rainy season. Most of the time we forget this because there’s not much rain, but yesterday we got a serious shower:

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In cup-mad Bangkok, I finally managed to get a coffee-in-a-bag:

Somewhere in the enormous mess that is MBK is a fake version of IKEA. I don’t know how good the products are, but the names are certainly better than those of the real IKEA:

Came with its own denture popsicle. The lemonade came from IceDea, a conceptual ice cream shop at the Bangkok Art & Culture Center. I’m pretty sure the dentures and the accompanying pink drink were made with Hale’s Blue Boy red sala syrup, a common sight at the many iced drink carts around town. It was delicious, though eating teeth (even in popsicle form) is a bit creepy!

…on our way to the Erawan Museum. The dog was either wearing a toupee or had an elaborate mohawk dye job. Impressive either way.

The Chao Phraya is full of water hyacinth, an invasive species originally from South America. It’s a free-floating plant, and you see patches of it floating down the river. The amount of it you see varies from day to day; this morning, you can see a great deal of it from our window:

(In the foreground, you can see the school; to the left, you can see the enormous ferris wheel of Asiatique, which lights up at night. Those boats are hotel boats. The bridge is the Rama III Bridge.)

Here’s what a patch of water hyacinth looks like up close:

Sometimes it’s sadness and fish:

. . . takes their fish very seriously; these aren’t the biggest they’ve displayed:

We spend a lot of time on boats or on the river. Here’s Harriet inspecting the Chao Phraya from a Japanese restaurant in River City, an enormous shopping center:

And here she is on the hotel boat, as we take a mop home:

And here’s the dock of the hotel where we live coming into view:

. . . are not enormous fans of Squidy brand Baked Cuttlefish Treats, but Harriet finds then reviving after her evening swim: