Compassion
This was definitely one of the highlights of the trip for me! The Compassion Home is done by GTO for children who live in rural areas without access to school. They can come and live at this wonderful home run by native house parents and learn about Jesus and go to school.
We got [...]
Karen Village
One fine day, Craig, Rachel, Melody, Gee, and our family set out for the Karen villages (a very primitive, tribal group way up in the mountains). Well, actually, we went to a children’s home (Compassion-more to come on that!) and then stayed at an awesome resort and the next day headed to the [...]
I’m going in in ten minutes to get my wisdom teeth out…not looking forward to it.
They’re extra deep, so they have to put me to sleep, and dig in beside my jaw.
You can pray for me if you get a chance.
P.S. More to come on Asia, Mom and Dad were gone for a few days [...]
Mother’s Day
In Thailand, they respect their King and Queen so much! Disrespect for the king (talking bad about, stepping on a picture of him, etc…) can result in large fines and up to 5 years in jail. Anyways, he’s a good king and everyone loves him. A lot of people wear yellow shirts (the [...]
Chiang Mai
We flew to chiang mai to see Hans!! We flew on Thai Airways, which was gorgeous! Everything was shades of blue and purple, and their motto was, “Smooth as silk.” We were almost there and it was sorta bumpy, and Kristi and Mom looked at each other and in perfect unison said, “Smooth [...]
Bangkok
We flew from Washington to Tokyo to Bangkok The first flight was 13 hours and the second one was 6.
We stayed in a hotel that night and went to downtown Bangkok the next morning. It was fun, we didn’t really know what we wanted to do, but we had a really nice taxi driver [...]
Yes, we are back from Asia, and had an incredible time! I’m hoping to post several times with lots of pictures and give you a glimpse into our trip. However, I just got a laptop, and all my pictures are on here, but i have to download a picture processor and sort through them all [...]