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No, we didn’t go to see the eye doctor recently, but they came to us! All the way from America. Lee, our friend from college, and his wife Helen and friend Angela, (all optometrists) came to visit this last week!

We were so excited to have them here….we shopped and ate downtown, showed them our neighborhood, office, and home, travelled to the beaches near Krabi, and ate alot of sticky rice and papaya salad, which seemed to be Lee’s favorite (and is always mine by far.) Krabi offered us the opportunity to rest (most importantly!), go kayaking, see some prehistoric drawings in some caves, “secret” lagoons, stalagtites and stalagmites, and work out our biceps with our smooth canoeing strokes. The boys played kidema (sp?) to their hearts content (no horseshoes in Thailand!), while the girls overheated in the relentless sun.

And…once upon a time while I was in Krabi, sweating off the bottle of water I had just drunk, I took a long walk down the beach, and spotted some gray dogs running through the rocks at the dead end of the beach (Krabi’s famous rock formations cause beaches to be cut off from one another, because the rocks jut out into the ocean). There were so many of them, I couldn’t count them all…and as i got closer, I saw that they all had really long tails. As I got even closer I realized they weren’t dogs at all, but monkeys! Sweet, playful, mischievous Curious Georges all over the place!

So I decided to play tug-of-war with some of them, who were super-friendly even when they knew you had no food.

I appoached them with a leaf…. then let them grab the other end,

let them take it,

then played the game all over again.

It was a blast; as you can see I got a huge kick out of their playing with them! One of my favorite pictures I took of the 30 was this one, of this little guy who took someones milkbox and was squeezing out every last drop from the strawhole.