Trekking Barris

Sunday, April 21, 2019

Easter Bunny and Baptism

This Easter both girls were baptized in a full submersion ceremony with 16 others.  The girls went through a 2 month class preceding and were both very interested in taking this public step to learn more about God and explore their faith.  I'm very proud of them.

the Easter Bunny found us and hid face masks, nail polish and candy in the living room!! 






Chaplain and Baptism Class Teacher

Huge Pot Luck Easter Brunch with 750 eggs hidden for the kids!

Saturday, April 20, 2019

Easter Weekend

It's been a great Easter weekend with Morgan's straight A honor roll ceremony on Good Friday.  This quarter she was surprised to also get perfect attendance - which has never happened before as we are always flying out a little early and coming back a little late to maximize vacation and find the best fares.  Saturday we went to an Azalea park festival which we also went to last year, but this year the girls bounced in the bounce house, got Cola cotton candy and went down the roller slide.


Morgan and her 5th grade teacher




High Pitched Japanese singer/dancers

Sunday, April 14, 2019

Chiang Mai - Songkran

We spent 5 nights in Chiang Mai and I managed to take over 800 photos, most of those were spent visiting the Thai Elephant House nursery which was fabulous.  I've split the photos into 3 categories - temples, elephants and Songkran New Year festival.  I think being in Thailand for their New Year and water squirting festival was Morgan and Jeff's favorite, and Bella and mine were seeing the elephants.

Here are photos of us getting people wet and getting wet ourselves!  It was a blast.  We found a guest house on a highly trafficked road near the Old Gate which was a great place to eat lunch, dinner, and continuously refill the water guns.

common sights - full pool for people to refill as they walk past - pool has a hose in it on to keep it full




soaked tourists through the open windows... truck drivers slow down... and sometimes stops so the crew can launch full buckets of water into the open back


Bella taking on sneak attack from the corner







check out the pick-up truck in background


date night - Jeff and I went to the Night Market one night while the girls stayed in and watched a movie on their kindle



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We stopped by ITM and they were happy to see Jeff and meet his family.  The girls also had their first full body Thai massage.  They liked it!


Night Market


Best seller - Squidos….  Not sure if my brother will count that as an Octopus picture...



Saturday, April 13, 2019

Chiang Mai - temples

There are so many beautiful temples in Chiang Mai.  One day we hired a Red Truck to take us to 3 temples outside of the city - one on top of the Mountain and another in tunnel....  On New Year's Day we hired a tuk-tuk to take us to several temples inside Chiang Mai and saw many neat celebrations.  Lots of floats with people throwing water on the Buddha statues.  Later these floats were taken on progression through the Old Town city streets.



cute girls outside the Doi Suthep temple








New Year's Day float