marriott

yo yo yo sean...what is up my friend? good news from thailand. we have often talked about the failures of our mothers. not that we don't love dale and dee, respectively, but we can both acknowledge (as they can, i hope-especially if they are reading-hi mom!!) their occasional shortcomings. well, should we choose to put them to pasture and start a new type life over in southeast asia, i have found our long lost thai mother. and brant's as well. and to some extent everyone we know's mother. her name: mariot. i am not sure if that is how you spell it or really even pronounce it, but really, it won't matter after your first half hour with her. she will have you so pumped full of thai culinary delights and cocktails that your mouth will barely be moving, unable to contain the long strand of drool that comes with a meal led by mariot. let me explain:

last night, aly and i had dinner with the producer and his wife, the director, another american actress in the film, and our UPM. all of them lovely and all of them willing to follow the producer's wife at my request. i threw the menu at her and made her just go. if you had seen her smile and her dress and her high heels (all thai ladies-even ladyboys, which is actually how the word translates, by the way, where high heels at all times-the cleaning ladies, the waiters, the producer's wives). oh mariot. this is where she came into her own. i know we have been out several times and had the waiter tell us to stop ordering, only to order more and wow him with our consumptive ways. hell, we have even had strangers comment to us. mariot makes us look like double a players. maybe even single a. everyone at the table had one of every dish on the menu. seriously. it just kept coming. somehow, i forgot to take a picture. aly was in a daze of tom guy gon. noodles were teetering on spoons (rarely do they use choppers here). singhas were collecting in our gullets. everyone was sweating. i kept my head down. it was a meal for the ages and my introduction to mariot. i may never be the same. i love you dee. i love you dale. i love judy and shirley and all mothers in my life. but mariot has my heart at the moment, sean, and she would have yours as well. wish you were here!!