Thailand, 2012

Since coming back from Thailand we have been very busy working at the carpentry shop, with Rotary Club, and a trip to Nairobi (blog to follow), and have only now had the opportunity for a new posting. This posting summarizes our trip to Thailand in January and February of 2012.First and most important are our family in Thailand. Here are photos of them and a video of all them doing things. Here is a video of our little princess just being cute. The kids all got together to help wash Daddy's car in this video. Every year Thailand celebrates Children's Day on a Saturday in January where they set up entertainment areas all over the place. It rained the day it was happening but we took them anyway. There are games for the kids, lots of food and prizes. Here is a video of the things going on at the place we went to. Opa and Nana also had birthdays when we were there and were treated royally. Here are photos of our cakes. A highlight of our Thailand trips is to take the kids to the elephant camp to see the elephants, see the elephant show and ride the elephants. Some of our grandkids had never done this so it was special for them this year. Here are photos of the show as well as a video of some of the events in the show. Here is a video of us riding the elephants, another video of feeding the elephants and finally a video of a few month old baby elephant.This year we went to the Chiang Mai Night Safari only during the day time. Turns out you can actually see more activity during the day so it was very interesting for all of us. Here are photos of our venture to Night Safari and a video. What you don't see at the Night Safari is a tiger resenting being stared at and charging at us. It scared Joel to death! (Nana and Adam were pretty startled too). Each year the Senior class at Grace International School have a Fair where they dress up and have activities for the kids. Here is a video from this year's fair.