On our last night in Phuket, we went to our hotel's Thai buffet night. Dave and I tried not to eat much during the day so we could really get our money's worth at the buffet. Unfortunately, we forgot that most normal people don't eat dinner at 4:45 like we do.
We thought the buffet opened at 6 pm and were chagrined to discover it wasn't open until 7. We paced around aimlessly for about 40 minutes, whining about our hunger and speculating about how many spring rolls we each thought we could eat. After that, we just circled the buffet like vultures until the staff got tired of seeing us staring at the food with our sad, hungry eyes and let us in.
We had a table close to the stage so that the girls would be able to see the musicians and dancers in the show. There was a program on our table that let us know it was time to "declare the buffet," which we were quite happy to do.
After eating large quantities of delicious food, it was time to "enjoy with the shows," and we did our best to do that, except the only show William wanted to enjoy was the one playing on the back of his eyelids. He fussed continuously and would only stop crying as long as I held him in front of a fan in a corner of the restaurant. So neither he nor I really "enjoyed with the shows," but the girls did. They are always interested in watching Thai dancers.
The staff at our hotel were all wonderful and extremely attentive. At one point, they even went so far as to crawl under our table and apply organic mosquito repellent to our legs. There was one young woman who took a shine to our girls, and they really loved her. I never did catch her name, but the girls ran to her every time we were in the lobby. On our last day there, she gave them presents: little pink purses and sequined headbands. Here she is with them showing off their gifts:
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