Cobra, Chompuu, Rain, Team

Hello Everyone! Things here in Phuket have been great! WE have really been enjoying getting to know our neighbours more and more lately.

Here are a few things that have added a little bit of prik (Spice) to our life in the past couple weeks:

- Trying to kill a baby cobra that was in our yard. After trying to get the snake, we realized that our technique in trying to get it was probably not the best technique. I guess broom sticks and rakes aren't the best method of catching a deadly snake. Obviously not, because we never did catch it. It dissappeared into one of the trees and we haven't seen it since. Afterwards, we were talking to one of the neighbours about the snake and they said that maybe it was a good thing that we didn't catch it because if we had, the mother snake may have come looking for it.

- It's been fun climbing our Chompuu tree and giving the neighbours fruit. A Chompuu is a roseapple. For those of you who have never tried them, it kind of tastes like an apple and pear mixed together. The Chompuu from our tree are sour. Yumm!

- We have been in rainy season over the past while. And I love it! It's not like rain in BC, that comes and stays a loooong time and is cold and often doesn't rain hard. Here when it rains, it comes down so hard that the pressure of the water coming down is better than the pressure in our showers. Often if you step out into it for two seconds, you'll be drenched. And the rain is warm. And often the rain comes at a certain time in the day and the rest of the day is sunny! So when it starts raining I sometimes can't resist the urge of running out into the warm rain and getting soaked.


Here is our most recent team picture. We sure love having a team. They are like family to us.