birthdays and picnics

First of all, I love letters, they just absolutely make my day. This week hasn't been too eventful but it's been absolutely lovely. Started off Sunday buying our tickets to Vietnam, LAST MINUTE. We needed to buy them before midnight, we hit submit at 11:59 pm, we decided to go out for a little success celebration after, the ice cream Oona and I shared was wonderful. Then, probably consequently, Monday began with me sleeping through my first class on Monday....oops, but I then found out that I'm not going to have to spend a lot of money renewing my visa so that's good news. Tuesday, learned how to make Pad Thai (i think? maybe that was the week before) but anyways I learned how to cook something Thai, Wednesday was a little field trip to a museum that was only in Thai...that was interesting. I finally got a new ring and these wonderful red thai pants the I love! Then we celebrated Minty's 20th birthday.

Most people left town but Jessica, Oona and I have had a lovely and relaxing weekend. We've run errands, had a movie night with Casa Blanca, and concluded it with a Saturday adventure to JJ Market, dinner picnic at the park and Vintage Market adventure. I then woke up a little late for church today, good news is I still made it there and not too late. I'm now at the Gailey's and dinner smells wonderful. Laura and I have talked about just about everything under the moon, we were just about to start up discussing our solutions for world peace but we had to set the table. to be continued....but we did make a little checklist. 20 (check), planning to graduate (check), not absolutely our of our minds (well, that's debatable). Anyways, it's dinner time!

Missionary update. Jake is still working in the mission home. He says he is loving it, learning a lot and is definitely keeping busy. He's getting to play more soccer which he is enjoying, and last week he said he met an American soldier which he thought was neat. We're currently just sticking to good old hand written letters, which takes a little coordination because I'm very much on the opposite side of the world, but it's going pretty good. I absolutely love letters. Miss him a lot, but he's doing a wonderful job in Brazil.