Temple visiting

Last weekend we went to visit a couple of temples (Wats) in Bangkok. I'm pretty sure it was the hottest day of the whole time we've been here, but we still had fun. I have lots of pictures.

Here we are waiting at the train station for the sky train to pick us up. The kids love to ride the sky train. Isabella likes to swing around the pole in the middle of the isle while it is moving, as longs as there are not too many people on board. I figure she can do this now, but not later in life. ;-)
Next we got on to a water taxi that took us 9 stops up the river to the Grand Palace. Zach really loved the boat, and hanging on the rings.

As usual, some random stranger wanted to pick him up and hold him. This time he didn't mind and it was a huge help when it came time to get off the boat.

Liza bargained a guy down from 200 baht to 100 for this umbrella. It came in handy for the whole "hottest day that we've been here" thing as the day wore on. 

This is one of the statues inside the Grand Palace, which is the main temple in Thailand and where the King used to live.

A self portrait by Isabella.

This was a cool picture of Zach looking at his reflection on one of the buildings.

Isabella takes a sit down break while we were touring the temple.

We didn't tell Zach to pose like the monkey behind him, but he did it anyway. I always knew he was a monkey...

After the first temple, we stopped to eat at a little restaurant right on the water. 

Next we went to "Wat Arun" across the river. A line of buddhas were outside the temple.

This temple has lots of very steep steps. Liza and Zach stayed in the shade, but Isabella and I decided to climb up.

Isabella did a great job climbing. The first steps were easy... and she counted each one. You can see the even steeper stairs that we had to climb next.

Here we are at the top of the first flight of stairs.

The view from the top.

Isabella with her back to the city. We had a lot of fun looking down on the city.

The entire temple is made of tea saucers and ceramics.

This flower was on a tree just outside of the temple and it looked like it may have inspired some of the tea cup flowers.

Here is our new family picture taken at the Grand Palace.