Catch Up #1
Oh my, I have gotten behind in my blogging! Twila and the prayer team left early Thursday morning, and now I need to fill you in on more of the things we did!:)
I want to say, though, that it has been a real blessing to have friends from home visit and experience life with us in Thailand and to spend time praying for us and our Thai friends.
Soooo....back to events after the floating market/rose garden. Actually, the first activity happened before floating market day. Our team had a July 4 picnic at Tom and Candice's house. We tried to make the food American style, including grilled chicken, sausage, and hotdogs for meat; potato salad; and apple pie and ice cream for dessert. Yummmm! And we played table games. But no fireworks. This is the first in several years that I missed Red, White and Boom in Columbus. Note the red shirts in the first picture--entirely unplanned!
One Sunday evening Trish, Twila, and I met our friends Tawan and Yaaw at Pizza Hut. We had a great evening. We discovered how to make the most of a one-trip salad bar. You pile the bowl higher than seems humanly possible, then bring it back to the table and share it amongst your friends! After we saw our Thai friends do this, we looked around and saw many other Thais doing the same thing--a common practice here, apparently.:)
One Tuesday Twila and I made a trip with a group of volunteers to an orphanage where they had a room full of 115 children with cerebral palsy and other disabilities. Since the time is meant to be one-on-one, and we had only 5 volunteers, only 5 of those 115 children had the opportunity to leave their beds for the play room with us.
We basically held and played with them, then fed them lunch and returned them to their beds. Visiting this orphanage is a ministry I have considered, but it is only one day a week and travel time to get there and back would be almost double the amount of time we spend with the children, so I am not sure....
On the way home from the orphanage, Rachel, a volunteer from England, invited us to lunch at a French cafe, where we had a lot of fun talking together.
Well, that takes me up to Safari World day, which will be my next entry.:)