At the airport, right before we enter security...and wait for hours on end for our flight due to a bomb threat.
In Tokyo?
Nancy marveling at the beautiful airport in Bangkok.
Night shopping at the airport. No, Joan, you can't bargain prices here...
They even had these guards in the airport!!
Say "cheese" ladies!!
One of the girls at the well center. She's 20 years old, with a 5- year old boy and an infant. Her husband's in Chiang Mai where he's also learning some new job skills.
James is in heaven at a purse store.
The baby here belongs to the girl in the earlier picture.
At the Well Center. All the bags here are hand made!!
The baby with Missionary Paul Kim's wife, Sarah.
Our food...we didn't know it was street food at the time...but it was gooooood and none of us got sick from the food =)
Even Ronald McDonald greets in Thai!
The holiest of sacred grounds in Bangkok.
They had tuberoses everywhere and sold them on the streets for people to buy and take to a local temple.
This girl paid respect at each corner of the spirit house, and paid the dancers behind her so that her prayer would be "better" heard and be more effective. Thank goodness all we have to do is pray in Jesus' name =)
PINK taxis!!! PINK!!!!
A Newsong-Bangkok gathering at a park in Thailand. It started pouring shortly thereafter.
New Song Bangkok
A random street pic I guess.
Spirit houses were everywhere in Thailand.
Eating at a local cafe...
Spicy seafood spaghetti
Pad Thai
Missionary Paul Kim and Houston's Paul Kim at the first church we worshipped at on Sunday.
At Starbuck's
"Kim-chee!!"
Deep thoughts, by Joan...
Why the serious look, Nancy?
Fine. Be that way. =)
Ginger and YJ with their Clifford and Piggie neck pillows on our way to the Karen villages.
One of the many portraits of the country's king we saw while in Thailand.
The room we slept in.
Behind Shelly is the mosquito net...yes, all 6 girls slept in that room.
The Karen pastor is on the left (Aja Jaron), and the kids ALWAYS sat in the front for service, which was held every night. And they always sang at the top of their lungs. Very touching.
After service, we had devotion together in the church.
Hanging out.
Paul, Ginger and YJ checking out footage from earlier that day.
The view from the front part of our house? hut? mansion?
I dunno why I have so many pics of our room.
Still relaxing.
Ginormous umbrella that connected the house to the church.
View from the top of the church.
Missionary Paul caught mid-yawn.
On our way to the marketplace nearby the Karen village.
This was nothing...We saw families of 4 on these scooters!
The marketplace
Don't let the exterior fool you...these fruits were AMAZINGLY good! And FYI - mangosteens are available in the US! They started importing them in 2007!
The kids at the other Karen village we entered.
Chicken!
Solomon preaching, Missionary Paul translating English to Korean and Aja Jaron's son translating English to Karen (completely different language from Thai)
The kids...note that one of them is dozing off but they're all sitting!! (one of the older kids that night actually fell from his chair while dozing off)
This man is truly a renaissance man - speaks at least 7 languages, cooks, wields a machete, farming expert, knows how to make mine bombs, make blueprints (architects!) and was a slave twice in his life time...etc., etc., etc...
While I was taking this pic, the little girl posed for me with the "V" sign =)
Houses on sticks.
Cow saw me...
then proceeded to ignore me. Hmph!
Sporting the latest fashion wear.
At the hot springs.
Ginger and Joan
Still at the hot springs.
The place where we took our baths and took care of other business...
The kids at the Karen village before school
Their school bus.
Goats in front of our house on sticks.
The flat tire...
The Chonburi center
Pattaya beach
James checking out Pastor Jae's biceps.
Note: I am now two shades darker.
Feeding the elephants
The fruit that smells and tastes....interesting...
The chirping noise we heard in our bedroom at the Karen village? Not from birds but <gulp> lizards.
Sticky rice in bamboo!! YUM!!
The Houston team with Missionary Paul, Sarah, Lydia and Timothy.
The WHOLE team with the missionary and family =)
At the tiger temple in the slums
This kid wouldn't stop crying and we kept trying to console her...only to find out later that the reason why she was crying was because she was afraid of the foreigners (us).
Nancy with the cry baby...
The candy man
Riding the bus.
Teehee..."militaLy" shooting...
The usual elephant in the streets of Bangkok.
Lydia with the elephant.
They stopped selling bread for us to feed the fish...so we fed them drops of water...and bits of raisins.
A view of the morning temple.
The reclining buddha (3rd largest buddha in the world)
Everyone, lemme introduce you to a guy I met while I was in Thailand...
No physical contact is allowed between monks and women...
...so I was disappointed when they didn't want to play tag with me.
The morning temple up close.
Joan, the explorer
A view outside our favorite hangout place - the mall.
