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Last week Nok was on holiday with her friends from university from Saturday morning until Sunday night. Nok disappeared early on Saturday morning while I was still sleeping, I think Megan was still sleeping too because she came into my bedroom at about 8.30am and told me that she misses mummy.  I decide to get up and take Megan out to Seacon Square, which is a big shopping mall a few miles from where we live.  I once heard that is was the largest mall in Asia but I don’t think I believe it but it is still really big.

Once we got to Seacon we decided to go to Yo-Yo Land which is  large area on the 5th floor which is like an amusement park for young kids which has loads of activities for kids to do.  To be honest it is a bit dated now and needs some money invested in it to make it a bit better.  We started off at a pirate ship game that lets you fire a jet of water at a pirate ship for a few minutes, you can knock over some things on the ship and also when some of the boxes fill with water they drop down and other things rise up so that you can hit them too.  Megan quite like this and has played is a couple of times in recent weeks.  Next we went to a large play area which has padded floor an walls and lots of climbing areas and lots of small plastic balls.  Megan spent the first 20 minutes running around trying to collect all the balls but when she had 4 or 5 of them in her arms she couldn’t pick up any more and would come to see me and dump them all beside me and run off looking for more balls. When our time was up the girl came over to tell us that it was time to go but Megan was not yet ready to leave so we gave her coupons so that we could stay for another half hour.  I just sat at the side throwing balls and Megan would run around collecting them. She was just like a wee puppy running after a stick.

After we were all tired out it was time for food and Megan said that she wanted to have some salmon.  We walked to Fuji which is a Japanese restaurant chain that is in every mall in Thailand. we got there and it was quite busy, I told the girl at the door that I was looking for a table for 2 an she said ok.  more people started arriving and she took there name and gave them a ticket with a number on it.  She started calling the numbers for the tickets that she ha just given out and the people went inside, I was still standing at the door with Megan.  the people who got seats were also in parties of 2 so I was getting annoyed so I just told her to piss off and we went to McDonalds.

After McD’s I hoped that Megan would be tire enough to fall asleep in the car on the way home but my luck was out when we hit the Saturday afternoon traffic jam.  Both of us were getting frustrated and I knew there was no way that Meg was going to nod off.  We got home an hour later and Megan was overly tired but I tried to put her to bed, after lying down on her bed for 10 minutes Megan made a dash for the door and went downstairs by herself leaving me almost nodding off on her bed.

We went downstairs and played the Wii and watched some Pooh Bear then I made her some dinner which she finished.  After dinner we played a little more then it was time for a bath and bed.  Megan was fine up until I told her to go to bed then she started with the "I miss Mummy" routine again.  I told her that mummy wouldn’t be back for another day, she went to the window just to make sure that Nok’s car hadn’t come back and we went onto the bed and lay down together.  She said that she wanted to talk to Mummy an I tried to call Nok so that Megan could say goodnight but Nok must have been drunk at this point and was not answering her phone.  I told her that I would wake her up when Mummy called back.  She put her head on the pillow and told me not to sleep in case mummy called back.  10 seconds later she was snoring just like her father.  I stayed for another 10 minutes just to make sure she was really out and then I went downstairs and watched a couple of movies.  My big debate was whether I should sleep beside her incase she woke up and was looking for Nok but I decided just to go to my bed.

At 5am Megan came into my room and said that she didn’t want to sleep in the big bed by herself so I told her to climb in beside me.  She rolled around for 5 minutes and then told me that she needed to do a poo.  I took her to her potty and then put her in her on cot and both of us slept until about 8am.  We got up and planned to go back to Seacon for another morning playing but Megan drank her carton of milk in about 10seconds and then promptly decided to throw it up all over the car.  We went home and got changed and decided to go to Tesco for some bread and milk and KFC for some fish fingers.  When we got home I fell asleep on the sofa for about 90 minutes while Megan watched Pooh Bear again.  We then went to the club house in the village and played with some of the other kids for a couple of hours.

All in all it was really easy and enjoyable just being the two of us.  Nok thinks I am a crap dad anyway so I think she was surprised that I could cope.  She did complain because there was some dishes in the sink that I hadn’t cleaned so she told me that I was crap anyway because I couldn’t look after the house and Megan at the same time.