Kim and Jeremy in Thailand

This weekend I got to spend a lot of time at the Thai markets! Yesterday, Saturday, I went with some friends to the Wararot (sounds kind of like water-road) Market. It's mainly a Thai market-very few tourists, and they sell mostly clothing, purses, & other everyday type things. It's an enormous market, and we walked around for three hours and didn't even come close to seeing it all. It was neat to see all the brightly colored materials that they use, and several places were selling traditional hilltribe crafts. We bought a few neat little gifts for people there. I was also excited to finally find grajiap there, which is the dried flower from the okra plant. You can boil it and make a drink, similar to making tea, but the drink tastes almost like a juice. I really like it and was excited to find some flowers to make my own!

Then today Jeremy and I went to Ban Tawai. It's another not-so-touristy market nearby, although there were more farangs (foreigners) there than at Wararot. Ban Tawai specializes in carved wood-everything from keychains, to wall hangings, to life-sized wooden elephants. We picked up some more Christmas gifts for people there and just enjoyed walking around the market.

Now we're stopping by school on our way home to take care of a few internet things. In about an hour, we'll head off to church. It starts at 4:15pm here, which is 4:15am central time. So when all of you wake up and think church is too early, you can think about us having church in the middle of the night for you!