Rich and Ronda Dolan

 Rich and I were invited again this year to teach at the Family Retreat that the Watcharaporn congregation in Bangkok hosts. The flight to Bangkok is only an hour, and the retreat is on a long weekend, so it is easy for us to go. The place that the retreat was held at was about 2 hours out of Bangkok.  This is the place that we ate lunch on our way.  It is an organic farm and restaurant.  The atmosphere was great as was the food.  During the retreat, Rich taught 4 times to everyone.  He went over the 10 needs from His Need Her Needs on Saturday night.  Then on Sunday, he taught on Commitment and Spirituality in the Family.  Monday morning, he taught on Solving Conflict. He had 3 translators.  This is Yung.  He did a great job!  He made the same gestures that Rich did and moved when Rich did.  One of the Thai said it was like they were the same person! Lek also translated for Rich.  He and his wife, Ann and their son, Art drove us to and from the retreat.

 Something that we are seeing a lot of in the evening along the street are these big bowls of duck feet.  These are just a couple of the big bowls at one shop; there were several more bowls adjacent to these.  I haven't asked but it looks like they are marinated and then steamed.  Just piles and piles of duck feet. Obviously, they seem to enjoy them.  They eat the chicken feet as well.  When I have asked what exactly they eat on them (since there isn't much meat), they just tell me that you just kind of chew on them and that they are really good.   On Monday night, we had another Women's Night at our house.  We had a small turnout, mostly due to poor timing.  The universities here all go on different schedules and some of those girls have already taken their final exams and have gone back to their villages, while others have exams next week so this week of crucial time for them to be in class and review.  But we had a good time.  I decided to do something that w