A Picture's Worth A Thousand Words

If thats the case i've already said to much, cause here comes some a lot of photos.

I got an email today and thought it summed up the trip pretty well. Here is a snip-it,

""The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those
who are crushed in spirit." I pray that God would be
close to you as your heart breaks for the people you are
serving and reaching. It's a good place to be. I also
pray for the broken people of Thailand."

Thanks Jamie!

This is a little late in getting posted but these are from our first sights of Thailand.
Here is a shrine in a little market from the city of Tak. We arrived at 6:15 am Tues morning after driving through the night from Bangkok.


Some wild dogs chillin, wait for the others to get out.


Mr. Bill checking out the area.


Some of the local beauty.


Some of the local not so beauty.

That right it's a toilet. At least it's not a hole in the ground. The "tub" of water to the left is flushing water. There is a little bucket in there that you fill up and pour over your "business" to flush it.


Ok here is some soup that was served at lunch on Tuesday after we got to Thailand. I, of course being the naive ginger that i am, thought the cute little innocent orange shape floating in the soup was a sweet carrot. After i started to chew my food up real good like Julie has tried to teach me i found out that it was in fact pepper...that contained HELL FIRE FROM THE DEVIL HIMSELF and yes everybody laughed at me as i tried to put out the fire in my mouth.



This was round 2. I won. Sweet and Sour Chicken.


A few shots of Mae Sot as we get closer to the banks of down town to do some money changing.



Here is what a power line looks like in down town Mae Sot .

One of the many village dogs. I am surprised at the number of dogs that are roaming around the city and villages.



Ice cream is a universal joy.



This bugger is our alarm clock. I'm still working on getting the snooze installed.

There are a few of these momma hens running with her chick around the campus.



OK now here are some shots of the house we're working on.



Dropping the septic tank down into the ground.


Bamboo instead of rebarb.


This is Ahphu, he's 19 and a good hard worker.


This is a Takraw serve. Basically its soccer and volleyball mashed together with a short net.


This is Ati and me. Believe it or not i had forgotten i had a beard until i saw this photo. I am still brushin my teeth and showering, just don't have mirrors where im doing that. He's been teachin me some Lisu (Lee Sue) Language.


Probably one of my favorite shots from the trip so far. Kids will be kids in any country and at any level of "cast system". Again, it makes you wonder how much better your life would be if we could "unplug" ourselves from the TV, computers, phones, facebooks and of course these horrible blogs. :) We would have time for more of the simple pleasures in life that will mean more to you than that hour spent/lost to technology.


Sorry that im playing catch up on the photos. I am taking a lot more that i thought i would be. The whole upload process is taking longer that i thought and don't want to start updates till the day ends out of fear of missing something with the villages. After all that is why i'm here.

Got some fun shots from today that i'll try and get up soon.

Till tomorrow
TTFN

Doc