Farm Chokchai - The Truth

I would love to say that "Once we got there and got settled, we had a great time at Farm Chokchai" but the truth is that Dan was grumpy for the first hour or so and I was stressed for the last 3 hours.  Dan was done.  D.O.N.E.  After having driven for 1 1/2 hours and then sitting for 3 1/2 hours in the car, he was just done.  He really wanted nothing more than to just turn around and drive back home.  When we got there, we went to eat at one of their steakhouses...which we thought had burgers.  It was a decently pricey steakhouse with no kids menu.  Dan was done.  He just told all of his buddies that we were going to the hamburger place and we would meet them afterward.  He was just done and didn't feel like a steak for lunch (before a big tour outside in the heat).  

I was stressed because we had committed to watching 2 little girls so their parents could go out for their anniversary dinner that night.  The original plan was to be there at 9:30am and leave by 2:30pm, thus making us get home by 4:30pm.  Well, since we didn't get there until 12:40 and we still had to eat lunch, do an ice cream workshop and the agro tour, we didn't finish until 5:30pm.  See the problem?  5:30pm was when we were supposed to pick up the girls.  IN BANGKOK.  I really thought the agro tour was going to take an hour.  I didn't realize it took 2 1/2 hours.  Anyway, the mom of the two girls asked another friend to watch the girls for us until we could get there...which ended up being around 7:40pm.  And that 7:40pm?  That was a school night for the kids (whose normal bedtime is 7:30pm).  And we hadn't eaten anything since lunch at 1pm.  So they were starving, too!  Thankfully, we had a couple of cheese and cracker packs in the car that they ate until we got home after 8pm with the little girls and they all downed sandwiches before bedtime :)

We should have had a great day.  It was a fun time to be there, fun to see and do.  It just would have helped, had our attitudes been better...

p.s.  Suz just posted this comment on here:  "At least you didn't take the tour bus there..."  ;-)