Update

There doesn't seem to be much to update. Basically we have settled into life here in Bangkok and don't have a lot of fun stories to share. Unlike our time in The Islands, nothing too strange seems to happen here. No floods, no rats, no random street animals coming into our house.

Life is normal. Or at least as normal as our life gets.

We have been busy lately. Roger studies Thai each morning from 8-12 and then rushes home so I can be out the door by 12:40. I stay at home with Asher every morning and study Thai each afternoon. After our classes are over for the day we usually take Asher to the park so that he can play and we can sweat, I mean practice Thai, with the people at the park. When it starts to get dark we head home, Asher goes to bed and we do homework. Most nights we find a little time to watch an episode of Lost.

Here in Bangkok we are still dealing with the Red Shirt protestors. They have been here for close to two months. At midnight tonight the government will shut off all electricity, water, food and telephone service to the area they are occupying. The area where they are having the protests looks like a war zone (and according to Roger it smells like pee). They have built barricades of bamboo poles and gasoline soaked tires right in the heart of the city. We are praying that this situation will end peacefully, but each day it continues that seems less likely.

Other random bits of information...
1. It was 100 degrees on Monday with a heat index of 113. I felt like I was literally melting as I walked from my Thai lesson to catch the train.
2. We have a new house helper and we love having her in our home. She is a tremendous help to me and Asher seems to almost like her. I love having somebody in the house all morning to practice Thai with.
3. The summer travel season is almost upon us and we have very few plans to travel. Our new baby will not be quite as well traveled as Asher. By the time Asher was born he had already flown 27,000 miles and by the time he was three months old he had flown another 12,000 miles.