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Hi,

Today we woke up to the Chiang Rai morning clouds.  They left and we had a beautiful day until the smokey haze arrived.  Hmm, missing the air in Oz.

The ‘Easy Monday’ song was “Stayin’ Alive” by The Bee Gees.  Back to songs you know and our ‘Zany Day’ oldie:

"(Gonna find her) x 3  Yeah, I’ve been __, a-a __, oh, year, __ every which a-way…. But I’m like the Northwest Mounties.  You know I’ll bring her in someday.”  Hint:  The singer is looking for his long lost love.  

When we left Perth, Australia, we booked our luggage through to Chiang Rai, so that way we didn’t have to deal with it in the airport in Bangkok.  When we arrived at our little airport, one of our suitcases was missing.  We were told that it was probably in Bangkok.  This morning we got a call that they had our luggage.  Big sigh of relief was heard for blocks.  

The greeting we received when we got home last night was as if we had been gone for 3 weeks.  Daku, Chopper and Neechanon were all full of happy, and it was all we could do to give them the attention they wanted.  Chopper is taller, Neechanon is talking more and faster, and Daku was just so pleased he could hardly contain himself.  When it was time for everyone to settle down and go to their respective homes, Daku and Chopper had one last nose touch through the big window and when Daku reached the landing of the stairs, Chopper barked and Daku turned and looked back.  It was straight out of Hollywood.  

This morning things were just about back to normal.  The play is a little different now.  Over the last week it seems like Daku has ‘schooled’ Chopper as to what he will tolerate and what he won’t.  After the exercise, we talked to Joe in Palo Alto.  It was fun, filling him in on some of the details of our trip and explaining some of the new words we learned.  It’s been raining in Palo Alto so I asked him if he had a ‘brolly’ (umbrella).

During our visit to Australia, we took tons of photos.  There are some that are just random shots, unrelated to an activity.  The rest of the week, I’m going to share things that made me take out my phone and shoot.  

The shadow of Stephen’s racing bike as we motor down the highway, Karri Lake at the end of the day, interesting elevator controls are things that caught my eye.

Feels like a Wacky Wednesday.

                       Peace,

                                 Danny

“When we try to pick out

anything by itself, we find 

it hitched to everything else in

the universe.”

~John Muir