Rich and Ronda Dolan

 We have electricity!  We went 2 months with the electricity out either for 3 hours in the morning or 5 hours in the afternoon (every other day), with the exception of weekends and holidays.  This is our hottest time of year.  It isn't the hottest hot season we have had but every day was somewhere around 109-111 F heat index.  When you live near the equator, the sun is very direct; it feels much hotter than 110 in the US. We also had about a week of very little water.  However we have had some rains and for the last week, we have had electricity all the time.  The heat index is still high - 109 F right now, but since we have had a couple rains, it knocked the temperatures down for a day or two.  We haven't had rain in a couple days, so we hope we have more soon. What does all that have to do with this picture?  Nothing!  This is Nakhin, daughter of Navy and Khermin.  She was born April 26th.  As you may remember, Navy ...

We have been going every other year to the Christian church camp in Thailand, for the last several years.  There are usually between 400-500 Christians that come from all over the country.  It is a great time for us to get to see our Thai Christian friends. This year, the camp was from April 12 - 16.  The theme was "The Power of Praise".  The first day of camp was also Songkran Day, which is a nation wide water fight.  It is great fun! During this time, they also have all the old people (us!), those over 50 sit and the younger ones all come and pour water that has powder in it and bless us and we in turn, say a blessing to them.  (Rich has forgotten about this and was trying had to keep his black pants somewhat free of powder.  It didn't work.)  Rich taught the adult men's classes and I taught the adult women.  We taught 3 classes. This is a picture of some of the ladies in my class before we started. This is a picture of th...