Then for some reason my focus moved up to the hills and
clouds above the casino. The clouds got all puffy and the mountain looked very green and rich.
I guess that was just a nudge to look higher in the picture to see good things.
Now, we have been having so much fun we have forgotten about the kids.
That is pretty much the way I parented in the past, too.
Daeng has purchased a big bag of things for the kids and ask me when we were going to Ban AYO to see how the kids shelter was doing. I said let's do it now.
We called our friends, Peter and Nok, that live about 20 km south of here and on the way to Ban AYO. They said they would love to go with us.
We packed up and headed to pick them up. At the check point we were stopped again. I as usual hopped out of the car and started taking
pictures telling everyone to "smile".
They check our ID's and looked a little into the things Daeng has brought for the kids. It was a pretty big bag of candy and cookies but no drugs or contraband.
They told us to get out of there
and we went to pick up Peter and Nok.
It was a nice drive up through the mountain road. It is also much more comfortable in an air conditioned car than a motorbike. I'm just getting spoiled.
The dirt road was not in as good a condition as it was the last trip as it had been raining a lot ands the road had big ruts in it. The little Honda Jazz with it's 7 speed electric transmission made the trip extremely well.
When we got to the shelter, Chom-nom was there and greeted us. We walked down the hill to the shelter area as it has been raining almost everyday and the driveway was muddy.
Chom-nom had been working on the drainage as
when they terraced the hill with the bull dozier they slopped it back to the hill instead of away from the hill. How the water sits in big puddles when it rains. It looked like they had solved this problem.
The shelter was not ready to move into yet. The rain had slowed them down but you could see progress.
And one good thing, water was still running!
My friend, Peter, kept saying: "Wow, how beautiful and clean the view is!" That is true and no plastic bags or plastic bottles laying around.
We walked back up the hill and got into the car to drive the rest of the way to Chom-nom's Mother.
We had a nice "AKHA" lunch with sausage, chicken, rice, cooked bamboo, steamed morning glory and a few other things that I did not know the names of.
All but the little kids were in school for the day so we did not get to see them this trip.
One of the fruits we had were "Lychee's". They were the sweetest ones that I have had in Thailand. Nok asked Chom-non where he got them. Chom-nom, who studied horticulture at the University, told her from his trees.
She ask him if he could buy some, say 30 kilo from him, to take to her home on the bus tomorrow. She said they did not have these at Buri Ram, her home.
Chom-nom hopped on his motorbike and returned about a half hour with two big bags on this fruit. He also gave her a bag of fresh bamboo sprouts to take.
We said our goodbyes and told them we would see them again in about five months. Chom-nom said he would have the guest part of the shelter finished so we could stay at the shelter the next visit.
We loaded up and made the trip back before the big rain started again. This time of year it rains hard almost every afternoon.
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