Kev leaves for Thailand today ...

He was asked to attend International Marketing Meetings along with James, the COO of UCB Canada (his boss).

His agenda runs something like this ...

Tonight: Drive to Toronto and stay overnight with the Cylka household (yay!)
Friday: Depart 8:30 a.m. and arrive in Vancouver at 10:29 a.m. (1:20 pm our time)
Depart Vancouver 2 hours later and arrive in Tokyo at 3:30 pm Saturday Jan 24
(which is 1:30 a.m. Saturday Jan 24 our time!)
Depart Tokyo 5:30 pm (now 3:30 AM our time ... poor Kev)
Arrive Bangkok at 10:50 pm (bedtime in Bangkok, but 10:50 a.m. in the morning for Kev)

He will be staying at Xen Suites Bangkok hotel evenings of January 24 and 25 (click on the link for English translation amusement lol). He hopes to go here and play tourist during the day on the 25th of January. We suggested he bring us home a monkey and some tropical fish for Iain's tank lol.

On Monday, January 26, he departs Bangkok at 6:20 pm. (all times are now in Thai time; our times are 12 hours earlier that day) and arrives in Chiang Rai at 7:40 p.m. In Chaing Rai he is staying at the Laluna Hotel and Resort (4 nights until January 30). There is will be mostly meetings, although they have one afternoon planned with a raft trip expedition to visit an elephant sanctuary!!! So fun. I believe in Chian Rai they are actually not that far from the border of Myanmar.

On Friday January 30, he flies out of Chiang Rai at 8:20 p.m., arriving in Bangkok at 9:35 p.m. and does another overnight at Xen Suites.

On January 31 he departs Bangkok 6:40 a.m., and arrives in Tokyo at 2:15 p.m. He then leaves Tokyo 3 hours later and arrives in Vancouver at 8:40 a.m. By now I'm not even sure which time this is but I assume it's Vancouver time. He then departs Vancouver at 11:00 a.m. and arrives in Toronto at 6:19 p.m. ... and drives home. Or, given how tired he might be, perhaps he will instead stay overnight in TO again :-).

So pray for my hubby, that he's not in a walking fog the whole trip and remembers to take some photographs! Our camera is missing, so he is taking Claire's cute little pink Samsung for the trip lol. Kev has been doing a lot of research into customs for the trip; for instance, because he is tall he must crouch down whenever he enters a room so he doesn't appear haughty and overbearing to the Thai people.

It should be an interesting experience all around. We're praying for political stability in Bangkok :-).




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