Learning Thai

Just had to show you the fancy princesses we have gracing us with their presence these days....

Thank you Uncle Fred and Aunt Michelle! We love you!
Uncle Martin and Aunt Sylvia- we love the giant sticker book, dress, and jelly beans (we can't get jelly beans here, so that was a special thrill). It was a very exciting mail day around here!!

Also wanted to share our "wall of fame" above the sink. Here is where I put the pictures you send us so I can see your lovely faces while I do dishes. It also reminds me to pray for you....and occassionally makes me really, really homesick. Feel free to send us pictures to add! We love the new ones of Laci and Elliot!

Thanks to those of you who have been praying for Eliza. Her fever is finally gone today although she is still tired and cranky and has a cough and growly voice. Tom now seems to be coming down with the same thing. He went to the clinic today and came home with a bunch of medicine, so hopefully that will help. He also got totally soaked on the motorcyle! We have been enjoying a few rainstorms this week. After about 4 dry and hot months, the rain is a really wonderful change.

We are looking forward to seeing what the Thai New Year will be like this weekend. Did you know it's the year 2550?? We have a short break from school for the festivities called Songkran. We have heard that it involves a lot of water throwing in the streets, so we might soon have some intersting pictures of that to post....

Candice

By the way, look what our friends/English students Neno and Oay brought us tonight. They went on a vacation to the beach and brought us back some "kaaw lam" (sweetened sticky rice and beans cooked inside bamboo stalk). Eliza loves it!....