On August 3, 2011 Chris and I celebrated our 15 year anniversary. Our first celebration in Thailand! We had a lady in our neighborhood keep Hailley and Elijah while we went out, so that was great. Chris scheduled messages at a place called Pyroma Spa for an hour and a half. It was absolutely fabulous-so fabulous that I fell asleep and woke myself up by grunting and scared the lady half to death. Chris heard me in the adjoining room and I am pretty sure it woke him up too. After getting messaged for that long, it is common to feel a little "drunk" from the toxins being released in your body. So, instead of calling for a taxi, we walked, and walked, and walked. We thought our restaurant was a few blocks down, and evidently we were wrong. A taxi obviously knew we were lost and pulled over and beeped for us to get in. We ran and jumped in and just told him to go straight. He laughed and took off. So, we finally found our restaurant but the taxi driver flew right past it. We ended up eating at a place in Tesco Lotus, the Walmart-like store that has fast food in it. We went to KFC, which was absolutely fabulous and then took another taxi to get our bikes from the school(which we just remembered we had left them). Then we rode back home on our bikes. It was a relaxing, fun night with my wonderful husband who I would obviously follow into the fiery pits of hell/or across the entire world and through the hood to find our way home! Yay 15 years of marriage! It has been so much fun, and I have to say that I love being Chris Irvin Wolski's wife.
So, on to our second celebration. Hailley's 14th birthday was August 6th, 2011. We got up, had brownies for breakfast, got dressed and got on our first BTS train ride ever. It was awesome. We saw our first therapist since we've been in Bangkok(for those of you who don't know our children were adopted and we all go to family counseling to help with the transition). She was so nice, but we certainly miss our Dr. Coots in the US. I think the new one will be just as wonderful given time. So, after meeting her, we all were walking back to the train when Chris saw a foot massage place. Chris asked Hailley if she would like a massage for her birthday and she screamed "yes!" So, we ALL went in and got an hour foot massage. It was fabulous! Even Elijah got his first massage ever. He did giggle the whole time and was really silly, but the Thai women love him as usual. After the wonderful foot massage, we got the train back to the station, took a taxi to the mall where Chris let Hailley pick out anything she wanted. She bought a necklace with her birthstone in it and some hair clips with sparkly things in them(which I might steal). We then went to any restaurant she wanted and she picked a Thai place! Very surprised by that one. It was awesome. They bring your food to the table in a skillet and you actually grill it yourself-to your liking. The food was great and I was so excited they had veggies! Not alot of that here, mostly rice and meat, with veggies as a garnish or for flavoring. After that, we went down and got the most delicious cream puffs in the world and sang happy birthday really loud and toasted our cream puffs. It was great.
Tonight we went to the furniture store(an Ikea-type) to buy a desk. We had to wait almost an hour for help while a young man ran all over the store to find someone who speaks English. When the girl who could speak English came up, we explained we wanted to buy the desk and chair. She asked us if we needed help carrying it out and we just looked at her like she was crazy. We told her we were on bicycles and she said they only deliver if you buy 7,000baht worth of stuff($233US). So, we decided to wait until we could afford to buy that much and have it delivered and so we left without a desk----again! Oh, well. Everything is turning into an adventure here. It is fun, crazy, sad, frustrating, and yet, I still love it. We still struggle with the kids, their behavior, our behavior, being a new family and moving across the world. I have faith that God brought us all here for a reason and letting go and realizing I never had control in the first place is the hardest thing to do. Leaning on God and knowing that no matter what, He's got us in his hands, is the most peaceful feeling and I love it. Please continue to pray for us, our safety-for ourselves, the kids, and spreading the love and word of God to the Thai people through education and missions. With love from the Gypsies!
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