Hi,
It turns out that the weather forecast was one day off. It stormed really hard on Saturday. Sunday was much better and Monday was basically dry. Olympic fever has taken over the house and we've discovered 'new' sports.
A few of you knew the 'Old School Friday' song. It was "I'll Try Something New" by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles. Now get ready as we dance into 'Easy Monday'. This should be a snap for some of you. (Ha, Ha):
"__ __ __ __ __, the rain is gone. I can see all obstacles in my way. Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind. It's gonna be a bright (bright), bright (bright) sun-shiny day." Hint: I hope to be singing this song all week. (555)
I thought I'd share a photo of the way many here in Chiang Rai deal with the rain while riding on their motorbikes:
How's that workin' for ya?
While it was storming outside on Saturday we watched various events from the Olympics. We've been enjoying some of the preliminary rounds in some sports because we get to see countries that are not usually featured on 'prime time' broadcasts. We discovered that we like to watch team archery. Hmm, never gave it much thought before, but it was rather exciting. Another event that sucked us in was women's weightlifting. Of course, we also watched things like swimming, diving, and gymnastics. Here in South East Asia, badminton and table tennis are big so there are lots of contests being broadcast. Fortunately, all the audio feeds are from the Olympics with English commentary. If you're watching, write and tell me what your favorite sports are. Just curious.
Sunday we had our friends Justin, Lisa and their son Jack over for lunch. We always have a great time hanging with them. Justin is the General Manager of Le Meridien Hotel and Lisa is an artist. There was lots of conversation about the emerging development of Chiang Rai and all that it means culturally. Jack is four and very curious. At one point he wandered down the hall to Tatt's room and was there for a long time. Later, Tatt had me cracking up over how he had to put everything away. They were talking for a long time, but we never found out what it was about. When Jack came out he referred to Tatt as 'the little boy'.
In the evening we watched the Hungarian Grand Prix and Lisa worked on a new painting. She's been doing a series of small 'acrylic on canvas' scenes and they're beautiful.
Today began with a play-date with Jago at 7:30. Daku was very excited to see his friend and at first, neither dog could contain themselves. They were running around and into each other and just in a state of bliss. Later BamBam was brought out and at first she went into her territorial mode. After a time-out in the pen, she behaved more politely. At one point Jago came up to me and stood on his hind legs with his front paws on my chest. BamBam jumped up, came over and barked him away. She was protecting me from the strange dog in her yard. Pretty cool actually.
Later we went up to the frame factory. We thought the highway would be messy so we left a little early. The road was wide open and we were ahead of schedule so we looked for a place to get coffee. We turned onto the access road to Rachapat University and found a little shop that was just what we wanted. After our coffee we continued our journey. After we picked up Lisa's artwork we went to Makro for supplies. All signs of the celebration of last week were gone and it was business as usual. I found out that there was another observance on Saturday. It was the birthday of the Prince of Thailand. Still learning stuff.
Have a Great Week.
Peace,
Danny
"Sometimes, we just need to be amazed by the small things."
~Angela Pacheco
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