Remember...

These are a few of the things we want to remember happening on our trip or after it.

"Katherine, what did you dream about last night?"
"Blankie." (She always says this!)

The week after our trip, at Hobby Lobby, upon sighting the tulle: "Mom! Look! They have mosquito nets here!"

Blaring loudspeakers with eerie songs and chants in the dark of the night

6 HUGE spiders

Thomas stepped on a nail we had to pull out of his foot. His foot recovered well and he was brave. Yea for Tetanus shots!

The first wedding we attended, post-trip, Daniel says, "Are we gonna have rice?"
"No, just cake at this wedding."

You must say "coke - aaaah, cole - aaaah" (short a for aaaah) to get a Coke. Coca-cola just won't work.

Riding the bicycles through the busy traffic of TJ behind Ashley

Thomas' HUGE bites(?) on his neck. Blood red and lasting for days, his skin peeled off and they were still visible a month later. (What was that, anyway?)

"I NEED seaweed!" (Katherine asking in her two-year-old way for one of her favorite snacks)

The humongous biting millipede (If you are bitten, "You gonna cry all day and all night!")

Hanging laundry in the sun, and then 10 minutes later, ants ants ants! - How did they get there?

The dog that went crazy when he saw the big teeth I carried to teach with.

The jaw bone that lay on the grass one morning on our way to the church

Chickens roaming in the yard

The scene at DFW while we were in the immigration line: the flight attendants walked up after they finished cleaning out the plane, and I saw that Thomas' yellow Duckie was with them. At sight of it, I jumped the lines and walked the 15 yards to them to retrieve the cherished lovie. But Thomas didn't know he had left Duckie behind. When he took in the scene and figured out what happened, it was more than he could handle, and he burst into loud tears. He was comforted when finally in possession of Duckie again. That was way too close!