We're Here!

Travel to Thailand was fairly uneventful. One thing that happened to change our plans was having to check our stroller through to Bangkok. Without it we weren't sure that touring London was very feasible, so we spent a VERY long day in Heathrow. The children actually did amazingly well. 

 

I did make multiple trips to the restrooms, possibly due partly to boredom on John's part. They slept alot on the flights, which definitely made things easier.  

Here's our plane to Thailand

And a few pictures from the flight and landing

When we arrived, Val Yoder was there to meat us. They showed us to our place and explained some things that we needed to know, and then handed us around 300 B to buy supper. We went out and found a little store and bought some instant noodle soup,  and then went home and ate and turned in. Christy  and John both decided to be awake in the middle of the night. John was sure he was starving hungry, so we got him something to eat. I don't know if he had sticky face and hands after Darren fed him, or what, but he got lots of bites all over them before morning. He's so itchy today.

This morning we went shopping at the Big C, which is the local equivalent to Walmart. It was tough to find what we wanted because everything was in Thai, and packaged so differently, and arranged totally different to what I would expect. Our bill was around 1150 Bot. I'm not sure that cooking will actually turn out to be cheaper. You can get a meal for 30-40 Bot.  We ate at a Thai resturant and made some mistakes. We didn't know we were to buy a card first and then get our food. We gave them some amusement I think, as we fumbled things and tried to figure out what we were doing.

We have some little aligators on our bedroom wall, according to John(lizards) and this morning one of them jumped out of my suitcase at me when I opened it. I squeaked in surprise because it was so totally unexpected.

Our little apartment is below the rooms that the missionary children have school in. It's actually very nice, but I keep almost falling of the edge of the kitchen floor. The Thai make a lot of little steps from room to room. They think that it will discourage the evil spirits from moving throughout the rooms of the house. I don't believe that, but it does discourage me! Well, not really, but it is new and I have to watch out.

 More later...