family travel

You have to go North to go South

The tooth fairy came to Thailand! Spud was so excited to get gummy teeth, a little hamster toy, and a 10 baht coin. Long long travel day today to get to our next destination… First we packed up & checked out of our rooms. A van from the...

Service Week Wrap Up & Beach Day

This morning started out with a lovely breakfast of…. Grilled cheese and corn sandwiches! And if you didn’t want that, you could have grilled cheese and sausage (think bland hot dog) or grilled cheese and raisin. Yum yum. Blech. Today...

Wrong Color Paint

So remember how I said that we got half of the main section of wall painted light blue yesterday? Well, the new bucket of paint that we used didn’t *quite* match the color of the front or other side once it was dry. It took a long time to...

School Renovations Day 2 & Hua Hin Mall

Another breakfast at the Sunshine Center then 45 minutes in the back of the truck. This time the driver avoided the huge bump in the road that made us all fly yesterday. We got right to work where we left off – NixiRay painted a panel of fence...

“I am so happy!”

This morning after breakfast we got in the back of a truck with 4 other volunteers (2 german girls (Hannah is talkative, the other girl must not know English well), Callum from New York & Andrew from New Jersey), along with 2 volunteer...

Maeklong Railway Market & Damnoen Saduak Floating Market Tour, and Bangkok Thailand LDS Temple

We booked a tour on GetYourGuide to visit the Maeklong Railway Market and Damnoen Saduak Floating Market. We have been so impressed with all of our tours booked online in advance (we also used TripAdvisor)- everything has worked out perfectly with...

Bangkok!

Our flight to Bangkok was scheduled at 10:45am so we got up early, finished packing, and left in time to return the rental car to the airport by 8am. We went to check in with the airline and found the counter for Nok Air closed…. Superman went...

We Found Church! Sticky Waterfall & Chiang Dao Cave

This morning Superman decided to try a Thai breakfast (the hotel has 4 choices). Below is Littlest’s reaction to the smell of the fish chili paste. Not gonna lie, I nearly lost my breakfast when I smelled it. Superman talked to the hotel...

Zipline Roller Coaster & Chiang Mai Night Safari

Breakfast was waiting for us this morning covered with little baskets to keep bugs off. The littlest thought they were giving all of us hats. Superman & NixiRay went off on an adventure this morning. A van came to pick them up and took them to a...

Old City Chiang Mai Walking Tour

Hotel breakfast included salad with a dressing that tasted like bacon. Not gonna lie, I don’t think salad is a breakfast food. We also had eggs, ham, sausage that tasted like bland hot dogs, and bread with butter and jam (which doesn’t...