White Sand Christmas, Bangkok New Year, Laos, and Our New House

As always it's taken me a while to update the blog and as a result there's a ton of pics. So, I'll spare myself the time and you readers the lame captions and just post the pics. However, a few of the pictures definitely warrant an explanation, specifically those involving extremely skimpy swimwear. So the explanation is this: most all islands in Thailand are generally populated with huge numbers of Western tourists - European, Australian, etc. - and virtually all the men wear speedos. Spencer and I simply didn't want to feel left out. Besides, it was Spencer's birthday and what better reason to give our wives the sexiest beach experience of their lives...

An additional explanation - in one of the New Year's pics, the two Spencers are posing with what may seem to be a random "girl" - quite the contrary, though. The girl is actually a guy. Don't believe me? Take a closer look and you'll see the 5 o'clock shadow and an unmistakably masculine hand. Not a bad presentation, really. We gave this ladyboy an 8.5 out of 10. Some of them can really fool you. What a surprise that must be for the lucky foreign boyfriend...

As for the mustache, greatness such as this needs no explanation.

Anyway, life in Bangkok is fantastic. We recently moved to suburbia to be closer to the school that Laura now teaches at. The neighborhood is beautiful and even came complete with a couple of stray dogs that of course we took in. The new family members are Nelly (the white one) and Cocoa (the brown one). They should have the house all warmed for Cooper who arrives on the 16th. Seriously, I can hardly sleep at night I'm so excited to have him here with us.

Enjoy the speedos, I mean the pics.

Peace.

Christmas at Koh Samet

































































New Year's Celebration with the Edwards and the Hummistons























Laos











Fantasitc New Year's Mustache


The New House