A Week On Our Feet and Thailand Pictures

Hello Friends and Family,

Just checking in. We have been here in Salem for a week and it has gone by really fast. We have kept pretty busy and we are having a great time here, staying with a great family that has been so willing to let us invade their home so that we have a place to stay. This week was my first week back at the capital, which was exciting and busy. It has been fun being back at the capital, where there are a lot of different things going on.

One of the best parts of this week was the chance we had to tag along this weekend with the junior high group from Salem EC and have a weekend of fun in Sandy, visiting the snow and swimming at the athletic club. I have never seen as much snow at Government Camp as we did this weekend. We climbed on the snow drifts and went down the hill on intertubes. It was a great time of being with a group that we love so much and seeing such great maturity and growth in the group since we've been gone.

We are continuing to try and see everyone and spend as much time with people as possible. It is so great to come home to so many people who are genuinely excited to see us and hear about God's faithfulness to us during our time in China. Sometimes it feels like we were never gone, because we feel so welcomed home. Enjoy our pictures from our time in Thailand. Have a great week, relying on God's faithfulness as you believe and trust in Him!

Sincerely,
Ryan and Kealy Thorson




Kealy rocking the moped!

Some of the beautiful scenery around our resort. We were next to a Nature Reserve so the scenery was beautiful.

One of the highlights of our trip, we got to ride an elephant together one day in Thailand.

Riding through the jungle!

After the ride, we got to reward our elephant with full, unpeeled bananas that he ate whole

My beautiful wife with a beautiful flower

Another exciting outing was when we hired a local fisherman to take us out to an island in the middle of the bay where our resort was. Here's Kealy, ready for the ride!

Ryan loved the water too.

On the island there were monkeys waiting for us, or for the bananas we had brought.

One happy monkey

A mama monkey with her baby.

Ryan's new friend

What a cute couple

Aye, Aye Captain!

On our next adventure, we took a canoe ride at sunset through the largest freshwater marsh in Thailand.

Our 'driver'

A picture full of beauty!

Overlooking the march, the border with the country of Myanmar is across the marsh.

The moon was bright that night

Boat ride number two, the fisherman showed us around the bay and took us to his fishing village.

The fishing village we visited.

More of the fishing village