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?"

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.

The Kids First Year in Bangkok

One of the things I wanted to document during our stay in Thailand is how well the kids have adjusted. I was told that the school they’re going to, NIST, is one of the healthiest learning environments of all the schools here. They have both had a very good school year. Micah finally got to go on his class trip to Chiang Dao and Mary class is having an end-of-year pool party next Wednesday. We are all excited about heading home once school lets out next week. So, here is a short video of Mary playing art teacher for her furry friends. She has been obsessed with Build-A-Bear ever since I got her one in April. She is constantly watching these goofy videos of other, build-a-bear obsessed, little girls on youtube. She’s been taking lots of similar videos of her and her “kids” hoping that I will post her videos on youtube as well. I will create a separate posting for Micah’s trip.