Visit from David's Family

This past week or so, we were very excited to have some of our family come and visit us. My parents and my brother and his wife came to stay with us for about a week. They spent most of the time with us in our home in Sisaket. They helped us teach English, spent time with villagers, played with kids, etc. We had a great time catching up. We also had a lot of fun together. We rode elephants, worked out in the rice fields, went to some neat tourist places, etc. We also celebrated many birthdays, Thanksgiving, and Christmas all in one meal. The following are some pictures of this past week.

Hudson and Pamela waiting for Grandma, Gaga, Derek, and Erin at Airport

Celebrating birthdays, thanksgiving, and Christmas

Christmas in November

After our family teaches English to the kids in our village, everyone poses with "Go Wolfpack" signs proudly displayed

Hanging out with some friends after Church in Phrai Bung

Eating together at a Korean Barbecue restaurant

Posing with the travel section of the Charlotte Observer after riding elephants in Surin, Thailand. If we don't make the paper, at least the picture made it on my blog

Mom riding high on a huge elephant

Dad riding low on the little elephant

Derek and Erin showing their Wolfpack pride

Hudson makes a new friend

Dad helping one of our neighbors harvest rice

Derek removing the rice from the plant, the old-fashioned way

Pamela and Erin pretending to harvest rice (notice, they have no tool to harvest with, they are wearing short sleeves, and this portion of the field has already been harvested...however, makes for a nice pic)

Derek and Hudson at the Grand Palace in Bangkok

Mom and Dad posing at the Grand Palace

Another sad good-bye to our family...this picture is right before they boarded the plane back to America