Bangkok, Thailand!!!

Hip, Hip, Hooray!!! We are in Bangkok and finally ON-LINE!!! The flight was long, but uneventful, which was great. They slept for more than half the time from Japan to Bangkok and we arrived without incident! A guy from Dan's work picked us up right at the gate and then had a large van and driver to take us home!

Our home is Beautiful!!! It is 3 stories, HUGE, has laminate hardwood flooring throughout, except in the bathrooms which have ceramic tile on a diagonal! There are granite countertops in the 4 1/2 bathrooms and a URINAL in the 1/2 bath on the main middle floor! Dan has requested a urinal in our basement in Leesburg if we ever put in a bathroom down there...and now he has one!!! We even got Jack a step stool so that he can reach it (it's pretty tall). We have comfortable seating for 12 at our dining room table, a full sized washer and dryer outside, a garage, a community pool outside our back door with room to run in the grass, basketball courts, tennis courts and a playground! We love it!!!

We are doing pretty well adjusting to the drastic time change...had a few nights of us being up at odd hours and one afternoon where we all went for naps at 3pm and woke up at 2:30am - only to stay up until 5am and then take a nap until 7:30am! I think the little kids woke up at 4pm that day and went downstairs with Dan to sit on the couch. Our doorbell rang and a neighbor had stopped by. Dan went down to chat for less than 5 minutes, came back and both Kylie and Jack were sound asleep!

We are finding our way around little by little and starting to explore the area. We will post more later about our adventures in Bangkok, which have included so far: me and the kids taking a taxi to the main grocery here by ourselves and successfully making it there and back, taking a taxi with Dan downtown to go to the aquarium this past Saturday, going to church, dinner at Subway, lunch at Mos Burger, dinner at W/I/N/E/S and dinner at a neighbors house!