Collectively we took about 1,000 pictures - even pictures of others taking pictures - "Hi Jason!"
Getting tough is the only way to stop many problems
Adam and Cindy's house they are renting and where most of us stayed
Dave and Shirley's house where Jason and his family stayed - one of the many miracles
The miracle Toyota Commuter
Yup, we all fit in, even in our Christmas jammies - although we are missing Pan, Sean, Prang and Abigail in this photo
Wall and moat around the old city of Chiang Mai
Part of the Heine family climbing down the old wall
Anxiously awaiting Christmas
Nana and Isaac - all ready for Christmas
What about the Heine kids - playing games, of course
Youngest start first to open presents
Oldest have to wait patiently
But their turn comes too, with help of the absolute youngest in the crowd - Isaac
The Heine Ohana in their Christmas jammies - Christmas is not celebrated in Thailand so Thai kids were in school
All the grandkids without sock monkeys got them - how cool is that
Twenty-nine came for sit down Christmas dinner!
They were all over the place
Here they are eating
....and others eating
Caryn, Cassie and Nana at the Sunday night market
Nana and Alexa shopping at the market
Playing for baht at the market
Looking cute at the market - Prang and Abigail
Inside one of the markets - quiz for the day, how does that lady get in and out to process her produce from on top of it?
Our trip to the Chiang Dao caverns
"The Restaurant" at the caverns - the kitchen and cook are at the right
Heine Ohana off to tour caverns
Entrance to caverns
Interesting formations in the caverns
This is your brain on limestone
More formations
Yup - Buddha is worshiped even deep inside the cavern - how can a rock image help you in the time of trouble?
Going even deeper down into the caverns - Caryn is hanging on for dear life
Glad we didn't see this until we saw the photos afterwards!
Kirsty - having fun yet?
Nana - how about you. having fun yet?
The mountain village where two of Adam and Cindy's kids came from - houses with dirt floors and mats on wooden platforms for beds
"Main Street" of village
However, the proverbial satellite dish!!
The beginning of the railing to Doi Suthep
The stairway up to Doi Suthep
Some of the intricate work at Doi Suthep
Places of worship at Doi Suthep
More fancy gold work
The main temple atop Doi Suthep
One of hundreds of Buddhist monks in Chiang Mai
A bell to summon a dead stone god
Naw, no where near what "Mom" looks like
Some of the "Heine girls" - Nana, Kirsty, Cindy and Pan
Chiang Mai from Doi Suthep
Opa contemplating the success of this adventure
Three generations of Heine "men"
Intricate wood carvings at the temple
Another idol to be worshiped
Our favorite bell ringer
"I can make this thing work" - Isaac doing his thing
"Who me? I made it ring?"
"Naw, not me"
Heine's riding elephants - Caryn, Cassie and Andrew
More Heine's - Kirsty and Will
Yup, even Nana and Opa
Here are Jason and Alexa
One of the paintings done by the elephants
Another painting of flowers
This has "I love daddy" written in Thai by one of the elephants
Elephants love the Heines
Jason and Caryn cooking for the crowd after their all day Thai cooking class
Looks good - what a treat
"Who me?"
"Couldn't have been me - way too cute"
The Heine Thai barbecue birthday bash
Now we are getting down to business!
Adam and Cindy's house the day we left
Sean and Prang's house is getting there too
Although not their houses, this is typical Thai construction - concrete columns, as you saw in the pics of the houses, brick walls and wooden window and door frames
Construction workers build these homes as they live on the construction site
Travel mode in Thailand - rickshaws
Travel mode in Thailand - scooters, thousands of them
Even old men drive them
Travel mode in Thailand - tuk tuks
Travel mode in Thailand - a Song Tao
Back end of a Song Tao - we saw one that must have had 20 people jammed in it with five standing on the rear bumper
Travel mode in Thailand - colorful tour buses
Umbrella factory where they work all day long and chat like a coffee klutch while working
One of thousands of "Spirit houses" around the city - this one happens to be a fancy one
