Sorry for being so long in posting, but when you are busy these computers don’t get a lot of time spent on them. Besides it takes sooooooo long to upload anything in Thailand that I wait until I’m back in Canada. Spent 5 1/2 weeks  with the family, most of the time in SriRacha but we did get a chance to travel some.

The kids were just finishing their school year so some finished before the others (no ryhme nor reason to the school schedule) which meant many trips to pick up and deliver kids to and from school. Due to exams etc. We always have a busy time when school is just ending, picking up stuff for last minute reports etc.  Anyways about school. Back in the fall they switched the hours so the kids stay at school and “study” from 3:30 till 5 So we got called in to see one of the teachers at school and when we got home we had a meeting with all the kids. Explained that we’d been in to the school to see some teachers and we found out that some of them hadn’t been staying in class. So we asked them who wasn’t staying in class? Most of them confessed that they hadn’t been staying and studying but rather playing around outside. Exactly what Terry had told the school when they sent surveys home to the parents. The sad part is that the kids didn’t do any homework at school or at home as they said ” we did it at school” yeah right! Typical kids eh?

Lots of house work and vehicle repairs to keep me busy while I was there. In fact so much my wife thought we should take a day to ourselves ( after the kids were in school) and go to Pattaya for breakfast and spend the day doing whatever. Well so much for that, the old jeep we were driving died and I spent the day trying to get it running. Meanwhile Terry sat reading a book, watching me  lying under the jeep. Finally I got the fuel line bypassed (plugged solid in the tank it turned out) with a hose thru the bumper and into the tank. Good enough to get us home and back and forth for the next week picking up kids etc. (our other truck was in the body shop)  So much for a fun day by ourselves. :)

We planned a trip up North to Chang Mai with the family as a bit of a holiday and on the way we spent a couple of days in another city. While there I noticed 3 young boys sleeping on the step of a building next to a 7/11. We pointed them out to our kids and they noticed that they were there for the next couple of days when we passed by. We explained to them that that could have been them if things hadn’t worked out with them coming to our home. I think it hit home with some of them, they were pretty quiet for awhile. You could see them thinking pretty hard. They need a few sobering moments to make them realize what they have now and how things could have been for them.  

It was a great time overall.

More to come later Dave