the MEKONG mission
Monday, January 14, 2008
our last goodbye
hey everyone!
this blog is a bit late, but we were all too tired to blog on the last night.
we have now parted ways and i am blogging from malaysia! since we last blogged, we have done quite a bit.
we attended sunday service at the local Surin church where Tham Fuan preached. The team also sang "How Great Is Our God" for the members. They really enjoyed it. this service was special because there were also some Korean missionaries there on short term as well.
After service, we enjoyed a really yummy lunch provided by the church (we had kuey chap, which are noodles in this thick soupy gravy sauce). we there had a chance to fellowship with the members of the church.
after church, we had some time to kill before our flight back to bangkok. so, we hung out at our favoutite store...TESCO LOTUS! (a superstore) yesss. and headed for the food court to eat in ubon for the last time.
then, it was time to say goodbye as the lim family dropped us at the airport. we then boarded our flight and flew back to bangkok.
at the bangkok airport, someone from teh hotel came to pick us up in a really dodgy van. julee and ed got a bit worried as the radiator started splurting out hot liquid and steam INSIDE the car, next to the driver, near where dave was sitting. it was quite an experience, and this happened all the way to our hotel!
when we got to the hotel, we decided to settle in and then check out bangkok city to have our last dinner together. so anyway, we found a night market we thought was called the "Silom Night Market" and caught a taxi to head to this market. in the taxi, we managed to fit the entire team plus the driver, in a five seater taxi! we told the driver where we wanted to go, and he seemed a bit confused. so, anyway, he drove us to Silom Road. We then asked people and thought that the Silom Market was down the street, so we walked and walked, but couldnt find it. In the end, we decided to eat in the Robinsons (like Myer type shop) food court. but when we got there, the food court looked shut. so, we decided to take the sky train (which costed us 20baht each) to MBK (a huge shopping centre) instead, as Julee said there was a really good food court there. So off we went to MBK. when we got there, Julee noticed that the food court had changed significantly, and it was now really clean. as we ordered our food, we realised that the food has also gone downhill since Julee last ate there. after a while, Julee figured out that we were in the WRONG food court, and that this food court was mainly for foreigners, and true enough, after we asked a lady, she said that the better food was upstairs. so after our dinner, we headed upstairs and found that this was true! we had all eaten our dinner, so we only had room left for durian sticky rice. ARGH, our dinner without the lims was terrible!
after this, we caught a cab back (with a driver who had NO IDEA where he was going, and kept trying to make us pay him more), and then we realised that we'd read the map at the hotel wrongly, and it said "Silom Road at Night" not "Silom Night Market", so we realised that there was NO "Silom Night Market" and thats why everyone seemed so confused!
anyway, we just laughed and headed off to bed. this was our last night together, and were all now going our seperate ways.
hope you guys had fun and were touched by following our adventures and misadventures online. we definitely have a lot to tell you all when we get back to church.
may god continue to bless you all, and please keep praying for our safe return, and a safe, relaxing holiday as we really need the rest! continue to pray for Miao, and her family, and the whole Mekong region.
God Bless,
the Team.
this blog is a bit late, but we were all too tired to blog on the last night.
we have now parted ways and i am blogging from malaysia! since we last blogged, we have done quite a bit.
we attended sunday service at the local Surin church where Tham Fuan preached. The team also sang "How Great Is Our God" for the members. They really enjoyed it. this service was special because there were also some Korean missionaries there on short term as well.
After service, we enjoyed a really yummy lunch provided by the church (we had kuey chap, which are noodles in this thick soupy gravy sauce). we there had a chance to fellowship with the members of the church.
after church, we had some time to kill before our flight back to bangkok. so, we hung out at our favoutite store...TESCO LOTUS! (a superstore) yesss. and headed for the food court to eat in ubon for the last time.
then, it was time to say goodbye as the lim family dropped us at the airport. we then boarded our flight and flew back to bangkok.
at the bangkok airport, someone from teh hotel came to pick us up in a really dodgy van. julee and ed got a bit worried as the radiator started splurting out hot liquid and steam INSIDE the car, next to the driver, near where dave was sitting. it was quite an experience, and this happened all the way to our hotel!
when we got to the hotel, we decided to settle in and then check out bangkok city to have our last dinner together. so anyway, we found a night market we thought was called the "Silom Night Market" and caught a taxi to head to this market. in the taxi, we managed to fit the entire team plus the driver, in a five seater taxi! we told the driver where we wanted to go, and he seemed a bit confused. so, anyway, he drove us to Silom Road. We then asked people and thought that the Silom Market was down the street, so we walked and walked, but couldnt find it. In the end, we decided to eat in the Robinsons (like Myer type shop) food court. but when we got there, the food court looked shut. so, we decided to take the sky train (which costed us 20baht each) to MBK (a huge shopping centre) instead, as Julee said there was a really good food court there. So off we went to MBK. when we got there, Julee noticed that the food court had changed significantly, and it was now really clean. as we ordered our food, we realised that the food has also gone downhill since Julee last ate there. after a while, Julee figured out that we were in the WRONG food court, and that this food court was mainly for foreigners, and true enough, after we asked a lady, she said that the better food was upstairs. so after our dinner, we headed upstairs and found that this was true! we had all eaten our dinner, so we only had room left for durian sticky rice. ARGH, our dinner without the lims was terrible!
after this, we caught a cab back (with a driver who had NO IDEA where he was going, and kept trying to make us pay him more), and then we realised that we'd read the map at the hotel wrongly, and it said "Silom Road at Night" not "Silom Night Market", so we realised that there was NO "Silom Night Market" and thats why everyone seemed so confused!
anyway, we just laughed and headed off to bed. this was our last night together, and were all now going our seperate ways.
hope you guys had fun and were touched by following our adventures and misadventures online. we definitely have a lot to tell you all when we get back to church.
may god continue to bless you all, and please keep praying for our safe return, and a safe, relaxing holiday as we really need the rest! continue to pray for Miao, and her family, and the whole Mekong region.
God Bless,
the Team.
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