My good friend in this picture was in the area for two days this week (she doesn't live around here anymore), and invited me and some of our other friends that we went to high-school with to get together on Tuesday night. It happened that one of them was having a Birthday party for her 3-year old son in a park that night, but said that we could all join. Praise has a very cute 15-month old boy, Anna Lee has 3 children, Rebekkah has a 4-year old and a 2-year old, and Charity has a 5-month old girl. I don't know where Natalie was, but she has 4 children. And I went to High School with all of them and graduated in the same class as most. It was great to see them and catch up a little. I should take more pictures next time.

I'm Home

I'm home. My Dad took this just after I arrived. The flight took around 20 hours, which was shorter than when I went because my layovers were both short this time.

I saw the greatest sunrise from the plane. It had vibrant yellow stripes on top, deep orange stripes in the middle, and deep, bright red stripes at the base, with one exceptionally bright red stripe where sun was coming up. The strange thing about it, beside the unusually intense colors, was that under it, everything was dark brown. Above it, there was a strip of light blue, but the color faded into dark blue and the sky above was almost black.

Bangkok, Thailand and Cambodia

Bangkok, Thailand

This is the part of the Grand Palace where the "royal residences" are.

These were my favorite restroom signs in Bangkok! :-)

They often sell these cockroaches or whatever they are in the same place along the sidewalk were they sell fruit (Bangkok). I don't eat cockroaches or anything that looks like them.

The fruit in this picture is good. It's juicy and has about the sweetness and texture of an asian pear. Its skin tastes a little like basil.