Thursday, July 30, 2009

Final Days of Leisure

We’re off to Ban Kruit tomorrow morning for one last little holiday before I resume my illustrious IT career with the Department of State. I’ve been a Woman of Leisure, more or less, for over a year now. But it will be back to the daily grind on Monday.

The kids will get back to school the following Monday, August 10th. Micah and Mary are both interested in signing up for golf as an extracurricular activity this year. The school has a really good program through one of the local golf centers. They will be learning from an ex-PGA pro from the UK and they seem pretty excited about it.

My good friend Sheena Driscoll is moving into our apartment building this weekend. She will be working for Mike starting Monday and she has a 15 year old son! I can’t wait for her to get here!

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

A Lovely Day in Niagra Falls

One of the things we did while we were home this summer was venture off to Niagra Falls, which is about an hour and a half north of Jamestown, NY, where my parents live. We did the full tourist package... Under the Falls, Maid of the Mist, The Rapids, etc. I'm always amazed at the record of fools who do crazy stunts there, like going over the falls in a barrel, tightrope walking over, or swimming down the rapids. One woman took her dog with her in a barrel and could not be pulled from the whirlpool for 6 hours. She suffocated, of course, but her dog survived by sticking his snout in the only open air hole available... a Darwin Awards candidate if there ever was one back then.

Friday, July 24, 2009

What the...?!


We snapped this picture at the top of some ruins in the Ancient City... I took Lukas and Mary out there for the day. More interesting pictures in Picasa!

So... what do you think is going on here? Maybe she had a fight with her snake of a boyfriend and now she's settled down for a pint of creamy lizard? She may come to regret that... "Does this lizard make me look fat?"

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Hillary Clinton Visit


My first posting in almost 2 months and it's about Hillary's visit to Thailand... I know, I know, but there's just so much to cover that I decided to write about the first thing I pulled out of the hat.

We got up bright and early Wednesday morning and headed over to the Conrad hotel for a meet-n-greet with Secratary of State Hillary Clinton. The boys looked so handsome in their business attire. We sat around for about two hours before she made her grand entrance. She loves babies and wanted pictures of her and the Embassy kids so Lukie and Micah got to sit on the stage the whole time. As you can see from the picasa pictures they were just thrilled :-) Btw, you can see all our pictures at http://picasaweb.google.com/tinakuligowski.

The Community Liason Office (aka CLO) tried to entertain us with knock-knock and "why did the chicken cross the road" jokes while we waited, but that went over like a lead balloon. Once Hillary made her entrance she talked for about 10 minutes, took some picture with the kids and then walked down the greeting line and shook hands with as many of the Embassy staff who were able to crowd up to the tape line... unfortunately, I was not one of those people.