The latest Gabe story

This last week we had the daughters of our friends staying at our house while their mother was having a baby. One of their daughters, Laura, is 3 like Gabe. Though they have their moments of fighting, Gabe and Laura are always talking about how much they love each other. Laura dresses up every time she sees Gabe. Gabe finally decided to imitate her. An hour before Laura was to leave, Gabe decided to impress her with her favorite shirt. Unfortunately, he got side-tracked and forgot to put his shirt on so he spent the last hour of her visit displaying his bare torso. After Laura left, he saw his shirt and said "Oh, I forgot to put on my shirt." I said, "Oh, that's too bad Gabey. Did you want to be handsome for Laura." He said "Yes, but I wasn't handsome, I was just skinny." Poor kid, already worried about his torso.

Storm predictor

For those now interested in tracking tropical storms & hurricanes, there is an interesting website you can check out. It's called Tropical Storm Risk and it shows all active tropical storms, hurricanes & typhoons (the name for hurricanes in Asia). It shows their strength and likely path. We've been watching Typhoon Damrey because it's been predicted to give us a lot more rain in a couple of days, so everyone's preparing for another flood. The website is http://tsr.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/.

The flood

Here's a pic of the flood in front of our office. Susan, the Canadian in the picture, had to climb the fence to get into our office since the sandbags were in front of the gates.

Sankhampeang Hot Springs

We went to a hot springs for the first time in our lives today. We have had continuous rain for many days now and it was cool enough to make a hot springs trip seem appealing. We first went for the mineral swimming pool. Unfortunately, the pool wasn't well maintained. The water was so full of dead algae that we could barely see a foot into the water. After about 20 minutes, we felt the need for "bathing in the basin" as you can see from the sign. This is just a large hot tub that fills with water from the springs. We all felt itchy after our mineral bath so we bought salt to scrub our skin with we felt clean but smelled like eggs the rest of the day. In spite of having breathed the rotten eggs smell for several hours, we boiled eggs in the spring and ate them for lunch as this is the Thai tradition.

Riding Bikes

Jumping Bean

Gabe at a Lego exhibition

Two guys in a Saamlor (bicycle rickshaw)

For Rent

Eric the pirate

Students at band concert

New way to post comments

In case you are wondering why you now need to type in an extra word when posting, I just want you to know that I put it on for extra security since I had a spammer.

Gabey