A Break in Phuket

We spent a 4 days in Phuket with the Song family 2 weeks ago at the JW Marriot resort. It was a family friendly place, and the 2 bedroom villa we were in was fantastic. Plenty for the kids to do though we certainly did miss being close to good, cheap restaurants and shops. But we wouldn't have done much of that anyway as it turned out that I came down with some serious food or water poisoning for half the time we were there. Wei-Han did a great job looking after the kids, cooking for them and caring for me, while I got a good rest. I spent much of the time in bed either sleeping or playing card games or with cars with Matthew or letting Mia roll all around me. The kids bonded more strongly to Wei-Han as a result of me not doing much, which was special.

The Song family stayed next door to us and since they have 2 year old triplets (Jonathan, Natalie and Caitlyn), they were always busy to say the least. Matthew loved being able to run next door to play with them - it made me dream about living in a community or village of some sort where it would be entirely acceptable and safe to do that.