Kim and Jeremy in Thailand

Yesterday morning, we went to a Thai church with Joy and Sydney. They are friends with Paiboon & Patcharaporn, our Thai friends in St. Louis. Their church was really neat-very celebratory, with dancers and flags and great music. There was a translation of parts of the service for the English speakers, which was helpful, but I think we will enjoy the church more when we know a little more Thai.

In the afternoon, we went to Chiang Mai Community Church. This is another church full of foreigners, but it's a lot more international and varied (not everyone is from our school) than the other churches we had visited. Our friends the Fishers did the music yesterday, and the guest preacher was very good. It was our favorite church that we've visited so far, so I think we will go back again next week and hear the regular pastor preach.

I wish I had more pictures to put up here, but we have just been exhausted lately. Teaching has taken a lot more energy out of me than I had expected, and Jeremy wasn't feeling well this weekend, so we had sort of a slower weekend. Hopefully soon I'll have pictures of the markets and the places we've been eating to show you.

One exciting thing this weekend was that some friends of ours got a little golden lab puppy. He is adorable! His name is Odie, and he's about 8 weeks old. He is also the laziest puppy I have ever seen. They requested the most mellow puppy out of the bunch and that's definitely what they got. He slept for most of the weekend, and even when he is active, it's only for short bursts. But he's very cute and cuddly and we had a great time playing with him.