The day started off with a lingering breakfast, and after that, a visit by Lidy to her beauty parlour. Russell was not allowed to stray too far from the beauty parlour, so for the time Lidy spent having herself made beautiful, Russell discovered 'IT City', just a mere fifty metres or so along the mall.
When Lidy had finished and had been transformed into Thai-Lidy, we had lunch and returned to our room. To our surprise, our room had been transformed into a flower garden. There were flowers everywhere (yes, even in the toilet), rose petals on the bed and a bowl of fruit (many of which we had not seen, much less eaten before)
Hotel staff surprised us on our wedding anniversary with rose petals strewn on the bed
The anniversary fruitThat night, Russell had prepared a special anniversary dinner for Lidy. They were to go to the leading French restaurant in Thailand, Le Crystal. The Le Crystal restaurant is where the Royal family of Thailand dine when in Chiang-Mai and is scenically located on the banks of the beautiful Mai Ping river.
The Le Crystal restaurant viewed from the gardens by the river Mai PingThis is the restaurant were The Royal Family have dined when in Chang Mai. It is definately five star quality fine dining nestled, incongruously in amongst houses. While very expensive, it is well worth the expense as it is a dining experience not to be had in many other places in the world.
The Le Crystal Trio - Great dinner music!
Toast: Number 32
Mmmmmm. Dessert!
Russell - force feeding himself - Cheese and fruit (Yummmmm)
Flowers for Lidy over coffeeAnd then, all too soon, it was over. What a wonderful night we had. I know the experience will live with us in our memories for many years to come and will be an event that will be very difficult to beat in the future.
Oh, and did I mention how unobtrusive the wait staff were? So much so, we omitted to take their photograph.
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