Archive for 'Thailand'
Our Christmas in Thailand
Posted on 25. Dec, 2009 by April.
Merry Christmas!
Here’s what we’ve been up to lately and a look at what Christmas has been like for us in Bangkok…
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Bangkok Wildlife: Part 2
Posted on 16. Dec, 2009 by April.
Again, people aren’t the only things living in the big city. Some animals and bugs have found a way to live amidst the traffic and crowds. Let’s continue our list with “The Creepy Ones”: ants, cockroaches, mosquitoes, snakes, rats, and klong monsters…
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Bangkok Wildlife: Part 1
Posted on 14. Dec, 2009 by April.
Bangkok is home to about 12 million people. But they aren’t the only ones who live here. Let me introduce you to some of the other inhabitants. First, what I would consider the harmless, sometimes even cute ones: birds, squirrels, slugs, frogs, geckos, dogs, pandas and butterflies…
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Food Friday: Make it Pretty
Posted on 11. Dec, 2009 by April.
If you’ve eaten much Thai cuisine, you may have encountered vegetables carved to look like other things. I remember carrots carved as flowers at Thai restaurants in the States. But that little flower was really only scratching the surface. Fruit and vegetable carving is considered one of the traditional Thai crafts…
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Helping Baby Olive
Posted on 09. Dec, 2009 by April.
Rusty and Lynette Polinder have been serving as missionaries with the Akha in Chiang Rai, Northern Thailand (Lynette’s actually from Goshen, IN- small world!). On September 25, their first baby was born 12 weeks early. Because she was so premature, she has had a host of medical complications over the course of the past two and a half months…


