We live a pretty great distance from America.
{From our hometowns, we live about as far away as we possibly could.}
And yet, sometimes friends & family come to visit you. It takes a lot of sacrifice of time and sleep and sometimes time with babies. But it makes you very, very, VERY happy.
This was one of those weeks!
This is when we arrived back to the hotel around 1 or 2am–I honestly have no idea–and yet there’s still a selfie photo opp waiting for us at the hotel!
When half of you are fighting jet lag and the other half are always in over their heads and you have the best local barista in your home, you drink lots of coffee.
And play lots of games.
We showed them around town the best ways we know how!
We also introduced them to some of our favorite people over breakfast in the morning and games in the afternoon!
We took a local Burmese cooking class, where we learned to make a noodle salad, a pumpkin curry, and samosas!
We made both the samosa paper and the samosas themselves, which the neighbors were super impressed with! They said they looked amazing and that we’re officially Burmese now 💪🏻😊😍
We took them to the newest Mae Sot trend: a coffee shop & bicycle park. It’s entirely great and entirely weird: a lake and manicured gardens, a small lighthouse you can climb, and many paths to bicycle. You simply grab a bike–for one, for two, for three, or for four! We tried three and four, and, well…it was perhaps three or four Asian-sized folks!
At least we got some laughs.
Then we went into the coffee shop–the most elaborate, over-the-top, hard-to-put-into words coffee shop I’ve ever been to.
The real stuffed fox hunting a bird with a rifle was not my favorite part 😳
The laughter as we all fell off a bicycle together was 😂
I can’t believe we’ve been friends for some twelve years, and that we keep up across big oceans and big life seasons. She’s been an incredible encouragement to me for so many years, and it was great to show her this little Narnia world of ours.
And it was also great that our husbands are just quite alike, and we can all just be easy friends.
This was a great kick off to 2018: we’re thankful!
