We made it!

After 19 hours of flight ( the dog was in the cabin with us, sleeping drugs are amazing, she did great!), three hours in the Tokyo airport where we all fell asleep on the floor and 19 hours in Bangkok (where we convinced the hotel clerk to let Lacey into our room with us instead of making her stay outside with the security guards and the scary mongrels and six hours touring the city, see photos), we have arrived in Chiang Rai! It's great to finally be here. Yesterday the principal of the school showed us around Chiang Rai. The drivers aren't as scary as in Uganda, and the roads are very good, but the motorcycle drivers are reckless and land designations aren't carefully observed. We haven't been able to drive our car yet, the doors won't unlock, but we are able to borrow the Quesenberry's car for a couple of weeks until we get it worked out. (The Quesenberrys are the couple who invited us to come to FLC, but are now in CA for cancer treatment.) The girls got an opportunity to hang out with the principal's son and his friend who are Megan's age. It was fun for them to begin to make friends here. Today we'll figure out how to do some shopping and how to get to church this evening. Our house faces the back of the Thai version of Costco, so we'll probably start there. This could be interesting!