It's been a busy week for us, and I thought I'd post a very quick update. Monday was sad because we had to say goodbye to Mim. It seemed a loooong time before we had an email from her saying she had made it home safe and sound, which reminds us that we have a long journey ourselves next Thursday. (We'll be taking a van to the Thai border, a bus to Bangkok, a taxi to the airport,a flight to Singapore, then another to Frankfurt, and then New York, finally hopping home on a JetBlue flight. Today I tried to figure out if we could just fly from here to Singapore to shorten the trip, but it's not possible.) Tuesday, Steve and I visited an orphanage about an hour away called the Children's Development Village. It's
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