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We looked at about a dozen houses for rent in our recent trip to Lampang. This was the best of the lot. We really liked the house, but it was a bit too nice unfortunately. We do not know what group of people we will seek to reach in Lampang and a house like this may exclude all but the high class of Lampang. At 15,000 baht a month (AU$ 100 per week), it is very cheap by Australian standards. We eventually decided on a house which was 6,000 baht per month (AU$50 per week). Our house is in town, whereas this house was a bit out of town.
A very enticing aspect of the above house was that it had a club house with these pools and an air-conditioned gym! It would have been a very comfortable missionary life, but not to be for the moment.
We returned in from Lampang (where we were looking for a house to rent) just in time. It starting raining heavily an hour or two later and when I looked out the window our car port was starting to flood. This is where our car was stationed before I moved it. Forunately, the water stopped rising enough so that it didn't come into the house. Our neighbours were not as fortunately and were mopping up the water from their living room. If we arrived several hours later, I'm not sure whether we would have been able to get to our house with the flooding.
Our house owner's motorcycle deep in water.
This year I had the opportunity to experience Songkran (the Thai New Year Water Festival) Thai style on a back of pickup loaded with water fighting equipment. Going around the block took us nearly 2 hours. The following video will show you why.
It is our second Song Kran (Thai New Year Water Festival). This is our Thai neighbours in a ceremony honouring their elders. They pour water over the elder's hands and the elder speaks a blessing to them.
We ended up only going to the children’s camp for 1 day instead of the whole camp as the children and Lisa have been sick recently. There were more than 200 children at the camp and Lisa organised several craft activities for that day. We were only there for one day but we were thoroughly exhausted afterwards and thought we probably would not have lasted more than a day or two. We pray that the camp brought many Thai children to know Jesus.
This is our son at the Children's Mueseum in Bangkok. We wish it was this cold in Thailand. In Lopburi it is getting so HOT! It must be getting close to 40 degrees right now. Even with the aircon on in our bedroom, during the day you still feel hot and sweaty (the airconditioner is a bit small unfortunately). I'm trying a new method of wearing a singlet underneath my shirt. A bit counterintuiative I know, but some people swear by it that it keeps them cooler. It does save the embarrassment of having large sweat patches showing all over your shirt though. I'm not yet convinced that I feel cooler because of it though.
There was a slight delay in this week's posting as we'd been in Bangkok for the last 10 days and have just returned. The ALMA Marriage Encounter Weekend was very hard at times but our marriage is much stronger as a result of the weekend. We thought our youngest son would struggle with Rich's parent's looking after him for the weekend but it was our eldest who really had a hard time and was very despondent. Coming back to Lopburi, we were hit by the heat. It is getting so HOT here. It is good to be back home.
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