World

Hi,
We had a rainy morning. Really rainy. We all just hung around the house. After lunch the sun came out and Blue went into 'town'. We stayed and set up the new printer and did some tests. We made some great color photos for our start. Gave Boon Serm a pic of him and his wife. We gave another one we took of Ploy, that we'll give her tomorrow.
I've had a few answers to the song. Some got it half right. Here's the opening line, and a dead giveaway:
"Who wants to buy __ __ __? She took it off her finger now, it doesn't mean a thing..." What? You're looking for clues?
Tonight we had NuKhun and his wife Gai over for dinner (He's Joyce's uncle). We met him when we first came to LOS. He arranged for us to have a (government) van and driver for the time we were in Chiang Rai. They asked if they could bring anything and we told them no, but they showed up with bags of food. Fruit, crackers, chips desserts, of various kinds. There is fruit in LOS that you can't get anywhere else in the world. We're slowly trying different things. Boot brings us food to try and doesn't let us not try it. It's cute how she's making sure we learn to eat all Thai food. We keep telling here we love her cooking, but sometimes there's just too much to finish it all. (I sort of lost my place just then) The point I was making is, we had a good time and I think it was an important dinner. Turns out he knows Boon Serm and they had a conversation. Hmm.
Observation: 'L' and 'R' may be interchanged in certain Thai words. They may also be confused, or left out, in various English words. For instance, Blue is often called Boo. In a conversation about a song, Lazy River became Razy Liver. After some very focused pronunciation, I managed to coax the word River from a very confused mouth. Foreigners are referred to as 'falang'. It's often written as 'farang' but always spoken with the 'L'. And lastly, Elvis is big over here, still.
Well, that's about it. Have a Thrilling Thursday.

Peace,
Danny

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