week one ends, week two begins...

Last night the conference portion of our time in Thailand came to a close. Today is a free day, and tomorrow Matt starts classes. Yesterday morning during the main session the childcare kids did a little performance. Childcare is divided by language – Julianna, obviously, goes to English-speaking. (The other big group is Korean-speaking.) I think there were about 200 in English-speaking. They mostly sang songs and looked cute.

This morning after breakfast Matt and Julianna left for the big elephant-ride. It’s actually more of an elephant park, I think. Matt took the camera, so I’ll post some photos when he gets back. Julianna was pretty excited… we talked elephants all morning long. She wanted to wear her little white sandals and I convinced her to wear tennis shoes only after calling them her “elephant riding shoes”.

I am still enjoying the change of pace. No laundry, no cooking, no cleaning, no dishes. Well, of course, we do have laundry – but we dropped it off at a laundry service for someone else to wash and fold! And, we eat in the room for some meals (I grocery shopped earlier this week), but its paper plates and stuff – very few dishes to wash! We always eat breakfast at the hotel, and usually eat dinner out with friends.

Matt and Julianna should be back around lunchtime. Then, he’s heading out on a bike adventure. He tried to rent a dirt bike yesterday and came up empty-handed. So, unless something changes this morning, he’s going pedal-biking. Regardless, his afternoon is full of bikes and mountains, so he’s pretty excited. I’m not sure what the girls and I will do.