@sdm1130 - If you need suggestions for BKK since I was there yesterday

-http://www.lebua.com/bangkok/dining/sky-bar/
-Thai cooking classes @ Blue Elephant ( In the morning class you actually go to the market with the chef)
- If a taxi meter tells you the meter is broken, do not take that taxi ( the hotel doormen will write out a card for you with the taxi number that you are getting on as well as the destination.
- Its gonna be hot
- The Penninsula has a free ferry ride from Central Pier (Skytrain Silom Line stop is Saphan Taskin ), you can have drinks or a light meal at the waterfront and then catch a ferry to the Grand Palace area and or the other temples.

and if you can convince the wife , stop by Phantip Plaza, it is a huge electronics mall where they sell anything and everything real and fake that is electronic. I bought an Iphone Mini there