Sorry, it's been awhile...

It's been a very long time since we've updated our blog due to bad computers and a busy schedule. We apologize and this update will be in point form once again. If you wish to here more details on a specific something-something email us and we'll get back to you asap.
In the past 2 weeks we've...
- successfully found a hard to get gorge in the mountains of lebanon
- walked through the cedar reserve in Bcharre, Lebanon
- Returned to Syria and visited the water wheels in Hama
- been given another free tour ( an english speaking local took us in his friend's taxi around hama and bought us desserts)
- seen the ruins of Palmyra, Syria
- Returned to Damascus to experience amazing foods, hammams (turkish baths) and straight razor experiences for the boys
-Visited the city of Amman (not that interesting)
-Got held at the Israeli border for 6 hours and were interogated three times each
-Saw all of the amazing sites in Jerusalem, and stayed on a roof in the old city
-Walked to Bethlehem from Jerusalem
-Saw the pope's entourage, but the pope took forever to show up so we left and didn't see him
-Went back to Amman (still kinda boring)
We are now in Wadi Musa and just spent a day at petra and are totally pooped from hiking and climbing around the surrounding areas. The plan for the next few days is to spend another day in petra, visit the dead sea, then spend a day and a night in the desert in Wadi Rum. After that we're off to Egypt! Only two weeks left of our trip and its coming to an end quickly. We're gettingt excited to see you all and we hope that we can still stay in contact for the next while. We always love to hear from you.

And Then There Were Three

Hello Everyone,
It's been a while since we posted, because the computers here are either useless or expensive to use. About two weeks ago Anneke and I had some time to kill in Syria before we met up with Nick in Beirut. So we decided to go check out a monastery called Marmousa monastery. We were going to only stay for a night or two but we ended up staying for a week. Accomidation and food there are totally free just as long as you help out a bit. To pull our weight anneke and I did dishes, weeded the garden greeted guests, and milked goats. During our freetime we read and explored the sourrounding mountains. We had a very nice week. After returning to Damascus we became very sick. I vomited twice and we were both not......solid. We spent the majority of the day on the roof of the al-rabie hotel (where we slept) making runs to the washroom. Thankfully the next day we were totally fine. We then made our way to Beirut where we met up with Nick Gamble. We spent the last two days with him exploring beirut and chilling on the beach. Yesterday we went to Sobra which is a Palestinian Refugee camp in the south of Beirut. It was really neat to walk through. Its a very poor part of town, but we still managed to get invited to someone's house for tea and nargele, which never ceases to amaze me. We also visited the Jeita Grotto and Jounigh where we took a gondola up a small mountain and had a fantastic view. Tommorow we Leave Beirut and Head to Bcharee where we are planning to hike up the Quornet as-sawan, which is the highest mountain in Lebanon. We very excited for the rest of our trip with Nick and can't wait to see all of the other amazing things that the middle east has to offer.

Never a dull day in Syria...

We are in Syria and its been amazing so far! We spent the first little bit in Aleppo and had an interesting time. We visited the Citadel, the crazy-maze-like souqs and the mosque. Aleppo, being one of the most conservative places resulted in a lot of unwelcoming looks from the women. That has been the hardest part for me as a woman (especially in the mosque) because i feel as if im intruding or being offensive to the women. Even dressing modestly (pants, long sleeve and scarf) i felt out of place. I wasn't allowed into the women's part of the mosque. Cory's experience was quite different. When he entered the men's part, he was able to sit back and watch everything go by. He watched people interect with one another, reading the Quran and he even had the chance to see the muslim men pray after the call to prayer.

We are currently in Damascus and the old city is outstanding!! Cory and I get about 2 choclate-croissents everyday, shwarma or manoushie or falafal everyday and we found a new love.... corn-on-the-cob corn in a dish with a mix of spices!! yummmmm...

Travelling allows us to meet so many different people. Our first night in we met two french guys. We got to know one another and spent 2 days exploring the old city and visiting a hammam (turkish bath). We not only meet fellow travellers but local people too. The other day we were invited for tea to an elder local mans house. Long story short, the 4 min walk to his house (this is what he told us) turned into a 3 hour tour of antique shops, a lunch of camel, a sock factory, the burial site of the old president, a bakery shop (twice) and a friends house, not even making it for tea to his house in the end.

We will we spend one more night in Damascus and then we head to Marmousa (sp?) to put in some community work at a monastary. They house you for working so we'll do that for a couple days, go to Lebanon, and pick up nick!! hooray!

Tourkey

Hello everyone,
Anneke and I just had a fantastic time in Turkey. When we were in Istanbul we realized how expensive it was so we decided to make a made dash for the border before we ran out of money. We did some research and discovered that the cheapest and fastest way to get through turkey while still seeing things was the three day tour through epheses and Cappadocia. Both were absolutely beautiful. As much as we are not really tour people we tried to make the best out of it. We learned alot and met some really fantastic people. We also noticed how hard it would be to see cappadocia on our own because it is so big. We had plenty of free time to explore on our own, which was also really nice. One evening we were wondering around Selcuk and we ran into a man who introduced him self to us. We sat down with him and made small talk. After a while he walk away for a seconded, picked of a dirty plastic cup from the ground near by, poored some turkish wine into it and offered it to us. We both politely sipped from the cup once and said thank you. Once we finished chatting we went on our way. We were both slightly concerned for our immune systems but it's been about 4 days now and we're ok. We have really had the opportunity to experience middle eastern hospitality at it's best and we are very greatful for it. We are very excited that we still have a month and a half here. It's about 16 days until we meet up with nick gamble in beirut, which is also very exciting. We have alot to look forward to.
Anneke and I are on our own now and have just arrived in Aleppo today. The border crossing only took one hour. We already tell all of the differences between Turkey and Syria. First of all there is alot more arabic it's also alot dustier and smokier. We just spend our afternoon wandering around the souqes and exploring the old city. We will probably only spend two nights here before we head to Damascus.

Greetings from Turkey

hello everyone,
We've arrived in Istanbul this morning and the first things we noticed were that it's alot colder, alot more expensive, and there's alot more people with moustaches. But as we've spent the day here we've noticed how genuinly hospitible and friendly Turkish people are. Everyone goes above and beyond to make sure you feel comfortable. Today at the internet cafe the owner came and gave us tea because he noticed that we were cold. And a carpet shop owner invited us into his shop just to show us how carpets are made even though we told him we couldn't afford carpets.
Our hotel is also about a two minute walk from the blue mosque and the Aya Sofia. And it just so happend that two stunt bikers had two huge ramps set up infront of the Aya Sofia today and were doing crazy tricks so we got some neat pictures of people doing supermans infront of the Aya Sofia. Also though we miss South east asia we already feel at home here in Turkey so we're pretty excited to see what the rest of the Middle east has in store. We're excited to be here and we're also excited when we get emails from you so keep them coming. We hope all is well in Winnipeg and all of you who have exams aren't stressing too much. Have a good week and we'de love to hear from all of you.

Back in Bangkok

Hello everyone,
Anneke and I are now back in Thailand for about a week before we head off to Turkey. Since we've last updated we've done sooo much so instead of writing an incredably long email we thought we could make a list of everything we've done in the past week or so. If any of you wish for us to elaborate on any of the things we've done drop us an email.
In the past week or so we've...
-Been to Ha Long Bay and taken a 4 hour boat tour around it
-had an abundace of sea food
-met kyle weibe in hanoi
-tried a pipe that they have there called a yukai
-motor biked around hanoi
-visited the fine arts museum
-ate rooster testicles
-visited the dead preserved body of the vietnamese communist leader Ho Chi Minh
-visited the prison where john mcain was taken taken prisoner in the Vietnam war
-seen a water puppet show
-had a mini LAN (local area network) party
-tried 17 cent beer (that was actually pretty tasty), which is the world cheapest beer
-went to a place called Ninh Binh where we paddled down a river with rice fields on either side and huge beautiful rock formations in the distance (known as tam coc)
-motor biked around tam coc and checked out the beautiful near by village (where we came two inches from hitting a chicken on the motor bike)
-went back to hanoi and flew to Bangkok

Now that we have a week in thailand we're planning to maybe go a few hours north and maybe spend a few days on the gulf of Thailand. We're currently staying on Khao San road, which we've discovered is super touristy. We discovered a McDonalds and I am seriously considering buying a samurai pork burger. So if you find yourself wanting to know more about any of the above drop Anneke or myself an email. We miss you all and hope to hear from you.

In and Around Vietnam

Greetings!
Cory and I are currently in Hoi An, an ancient town off the coast of the South China Sea. Our time spent in Ho Chi Min City was very pleasant and we got our fair share of city life. During our stay we managed to visit the War Remnents Mueseum. It was a big eye opener and made for a depressing, yet learning experience. Apparently the 'Vietnam War' was one of the only wars that allowed freedom of press so there were many visual displays. We also had the chance to check out the 'Hong Kong' market which was a 4-story building with anything from food to house ware to clothing. Every square inch was jam-packed with goods and it became quite cholsterphobic! If Cory and I were big shoppers we would have spent more then 25 minutes in the building!
From Ho Chi Min City we decided to take a flight which we thought was going to Dha Nang, an hour away from Hoi An. After taking off, recieving a beverage and coming back down to land, our 35 minute flight landed us in a beach town called Nha Trang. It ended up being a 12 hour bus ride from Hoi An. Confused at how this happened, we quickly fell in love with this little town. Our hotel was literally a 2 minute walk from the 7km beach and art, palm trees, tiled-sidewalks and grass made up a beautiful boardwalk along the sand. Here we spent countlesss hours on the beach, played in the undertoe of the massive waves, enjoyed sea food and went snorkelling! For me it was my first time viewing the underwater world and it was abosolutely amazing!! There was so much colour and places to explore. Everywhere we swam there was either a neat fish to catch eye or a new arrangment of coral. Unfortunately it was the coldest it had been on our trip that day so it was easy to get goose bumps. For you Winnipegers the 'coldest' was mid twenties with wind and clouds.
After Nha Trang we caught a 12 hr night bus out to Hoi An. The excitment of this double decker 'bed bus' wore off quite quickly when we got the move on. Cory mentioned he caught air a couple times and the continious bumps served for a great headache. We arrived in Hoi An at 7:30am and after a quick bite to eat we biked around the town for an hour or so and had a very long nap.
When we caught up on sleep we had the chance to experience the beauty of Hoi An. The colours and buildings in this little town remind us a lot like the buildings in the countryside of Greece ( i know that niether of us have actually been to greece so technically it can't really remind us of it but you'd understand if you saw the buildings). Everything looks so artistic and its hard not to take a good picture. There are hundreds of little clothing shops that will custome-make anything you want and if we weren't budget travelling for another 2 and half months we definately would have taken advantage of this oppotunity (or at least I would have). We ended up purchasing custome made "adidas" high tops for about 35 dollars each. Exciting!
Today we are taking another night bus (we are hoping for a smoother ride) to Hanoi. In Northren Vietnam we are hoping to spend time in Hanoi, Ha Long Bay and Sapa. We have decided that we aren't going to Laos because our time in Southeast Asia is running short. There are so many amazing places and to rush them wouldn't be fair. We feel that Vietnam deserves more time, and it also gives us and excuse to come back and visit Laos.
We've heard that Winnipeg is warming up and were happy for you all back home! We miss you and love to hear from you!

Greetings from Vietnam

Hello everyone,
We just arrived in Ho Chi Mihn city Vietnam about 3 hours ago. So there's not too much to say about Vietnam besides the fact that everything is alot more expensive here, and there's a whole less Kareoke music channels on T.V. We may not have much to say about our time so far in Vietnam, but we certainly can tell you lots about our last week in Cambodia.
About a week and a half ago we started to Volunteer at an organization called Save Children in Asia organization (S.C.A.O.). We quickly fell in love with the place. The main centre is a simple khmer home, but just a little bit bigger. Just down the road is another property where they have the classroom and another building where the older boys sleep. Once we moved into the centre we quickly became part of the family. Every day when we were done teaching our class we would come back to the centre and play with the kids for a while. The kind people at the centre even let us borrow their motor bike. so sometimes we would take that in to phnom penh to run errands. We were even lucky enough to go to the Dentist with some of the kids. For all of them it was their first time, which was pretty interesting. Every night after the kids had gone to bed anneke and I would have Coffee with a guy from Israel named Niv who also volunteered at the centre. It was definetly something that anneke and I both looked forward to at the end of the day. Every night we'de discuss world issues and talk about all of the differences between our countries. We also became very close with the kids. The only problem was the alot of them had trouble saying our names, so they ended up just calling us "teacha". Around the middle of last week I was sitting in the classroom with one of the older boys and we ended up talking about highschool and things like that. In the middle of the convorsation he mentioned how lucky I was that after high school I could just save up money and go traveling. For him he would have to work for a few years just to make the six hour bus ride to Siem Reap to see Angkor Wat. After the convorsation an idea sparked in my head. I got the idea to get some money together and take the seven oldest kids to Siem Reap to see Angkor Wat. I talked it over with Anneke and she said that it would be a good idea. So I talked to the director and he agreed. After talking to a couple other volunteers a 61 year old woman from Holand named Gerda and a 24 year old woman named natalie from Korea decided to come along aswell. The four of us volunteers all chipped in some money for the trip. Both mine and Anneke's parents made a donation as well to help us along. We were very excited how things came together. Since Anneke and I had both been to Siem Reap before we arranged the bus and guest house and all of those other details and three days later us four volunteers and the 7 kids all were on our way to Siem Reap. We had an amazing time with them. We learned the best way to travel is with a group of locals from the country side. When they buy things its aways half the price that the foriegners pay. The entire time we were with them they would either be climbing up trees and getting some weird fruits for us to eat or even just picking up seeds off the ground and getting us to try them. The trip also gave us a chance to get to know them better as people and find out how smart and talented they are. They all loved Angkor Wat and watching the look on their faces when they saw Angkor Wat for the first time made the whole trip worth it for anneke and I. When we got back to Phnom Pehn it was really hard to say goodbye to everyone, but we knew we had to move on. This was certainly an experience that we'll always remember.

Anneke and I went to the orphnage yesterday and we loved it. It's about a half hour tuk tuk ride from phnom penh when we got there all there was was a gate with two cement pillars with SCAO spray painted on it which stands from save the poor children of asia organization. We walked in and we saw a classroom made out of a tarp and some wooden poles that could hold about 25 students. We met a man who took us down the road to where about 16 orphans stay. This is where we met the founder of the organization he gave us a little run down of how it works. The organization it's self is only about 14 months old. It still has no sponsors and relys souly on donations. Which is pretty tough for them. Once we got our little tour and spele we were told that we were teaching an english class of 25 kids in about an hour. So as you can imagine anneke and I were kinda stressed. We had no idea where these kids were with their english or even how old they were. They gave us an english learning book and told us roughly what page they were on, and we just went from there. When it came down to teaching the kids, it turns out that they were much smarter than we thought, which was nice. They're also all very eager to learn.
The way that the organization works is there is an orphanage with about 16 children, whom they care for. The organization also offers four english classes a day for free to the people in the surrounding village. Each class has anywhere from 25 to 40 students. Anneke and I are teaching the 5:30 class now for the rest of the week. The kids are anywhere from 9-13 years old. Tommorow we are also going to move into the orphanage for the week and sleep in the same house as the children. We're also taking part in a fundraiser tommorow in phnom penh. The whole organizaton is currently run by about 4 or 5 regular volunteers. So on saturday 4 or 5 of us are going to the river front where me and some other guys will possibly play guitar, while the the others sell hand made post cards to raise money for the organization. We're pretty much winging it, but we'll see how it goes.
We'de like to ask you for your prayers and pray for this organization as well. They're doing good things, but they don't have really any funding. We may not be able to keep in too much contact because there's not too much internet in the area, but if we find some we'll tell you. It's going to be an interesting week.

Happy in Cambodia

Our experience in Cambodia so far has been amazing! We are currently in Phnom Penh, which is the capital of Cambodia. We were in Kratie for about two days. Our first day in Kratie was fantasic. After break fast we rented a motor bike and decided to go to some rapids we heared about, which are about 30 minutes outside of Kratie. It was a beautiful drive through the Cambodian country side. It was also pretty interesting because niether of us had ever really driven a motor bike before. We decided that I would drive first sinse I used to drive a big cargo van (which is completely different than a motor bike). It took me a while to figure out the shifting, and after alot of jerking forward and sudden stops I got the hang of it. What took the most getting used to was the traffic. In Cambodia there aren't really any rules, which means that one ways are two ways and roundabouts are just circles full of people doing whatever they want. Once we go out of town it was smooth sailing all the way to the rapids. When we got to the rapids there were two or three rows of beach huts along the banks of the rapids. After not even being there for 5 minutes we were invited over by 11 young men celebrating a 24th birthday. So we sat around and ate fish with them and celebrated witht them for a good three or four hours. When they had to go we said goodbye and saw them to there motor bikes, when we got back we were invited to swim with five other young locals in rapids, which was a great time.
The next day we rented motor a motor bike again and headed out to see the Irrawady dolphins that reside in the Mekong. We had to sneak behind a construction zone to see them, so as to avoid paying 14 dollars, but it was worth it.
After that we made our way here. We've settled into the tat guesthouse and are spending our first day here getting to know the city. At the guest house we found a brochure advertising possible volunteer positions in an orphanage about 7 kms outside of Phnom Pehn, so we phoned them and we're going to check it out tommorow and see what there is to do. So we'll keep you updated further and we hope to keep hearing from you.

Hi everyone,
Anneke and I have just arrived in a town in the north east of Cambodia called Kratie. Yesterday we were in another town called Kompong Cham. Both places are located right on the beautiful Mekong River. About three days ago we visited Angkor Wat, which was absolutly fantastic. We rented bikes from Siem Reap the day before to bike the 9 kms to Angkor Ruins. But the day before we left my bike got a flat tire. And since we left for Angkor around 5:00 in the morning the bike shop to exchange the bike. So I hopped on Annekes bike and peddled while she sat on the rack in the back. It also happened to be pitch black once we got out of siem reap and were on the main road to Angkor Wat there were no lights and the road was full of pot holes so we decided to just walk with the bike. To make a long story short a very kind police man ended up driving behind us on his motor cycle to give us light while we rode our bike for the rest of the way to angkor. On the way back from Angkor the locals seemed to get a kick out of us. As they drove by they would wave and chuckle while we rode our bike looking like losers. The rest of our stay was great. We stayed in a place called the winter guest house which ironically had no air conditioning. We met lots of fellow travellers and ate very well. The average plate at a local restaurant in Cambodia is about $3 dollars U.S. Our stay in Kampong cham was also very pleasant. We walked over the Mekong on a bamboo bridge and dipped our feet in it and we saw our first thunder storm. Now that we're in Kratie we hope to stay here for few days. There are some rare Irrawady dolphins in the Mekong about 30 minutes north of here so we hope to rent some motor cycles tommorow and go check them out. Thats pretty much all that's going on with us right now. Thanks alot to all who have sent us e mails. We love to here from you and hope to keep maintaining contact. So far Cambodia is strikingly beautiful and we can't wait to see what other amazing things there are here.

Cambodia!

Hey Everyone!
After two days of continious travel and lack of sleep, we have arrived in Siem Riep, Cambodia. It has been very eventful so far and we have so many stories. Cory almost got kicked off the bus coming here, because he "lost" his sticker that indicated we were payed for and with the group, the northren landscape of Cambodia is very similar to Manitoba's (very flat!), we met our first Winnipeger and he lives on Wellington Cresecent (if he's not travelling), we rented bicycles and have now become one with the insane traffic of Asian streets, it rained for the first time during our travells, a popular breakfast item is rice with pork/chicken and the people here are genuienly friendly with the most smiley faces!!!
Tomorrow we plan to bike to Angkor Watt to experience some of the most magnificent temples in the world! (says the winnipeger who has been travelling for ages). Were going to go just as the sun is rising to beat the crowd. We are both very excited and it will be a bit of a different view, since we've been doing the more nature-side of things lately. We plan to do this for two days or so then head out to Phnom Penh and Kratie, where we'll see dolphins!!
We've tried at several different places to upload photos for you all to see but they haven't had the right downloading programs on these computers. We will keep trying and get those visuals for you ASAP!
We hope all is well in Winnipeg and that the weather is being a little bit more cooperative. Good-bye until next time! :D

Khao Sok National Park

We are back from Kho Chang and things are continuing to meet our standards of excellence! After a short bus ride from Ranong, we arrived in Khao Sok National Park. We are currenctly staying in a "tree house" and there are monkeys running around everywhere! We chilled out with one on our porch this afternoon!
During the day we went for a 6 hour hike up to an amazing 11-tiered waterfall through a thick bamboo forest. We climbed up the entire thing and swam through the pool at the bottom! Words can't explain its beauty!
Tomorrow were planning on seeing three more waterfall sites and swim through a gorge! Altogether it will be around a 14km hike!
More pictures will be posted on facebook in the near future! Hope all is well back home!

Koh Chang Beautiful

friends,
We have so much to tell you! The past four days have been absolutly amazing! It started off by catching a bus from bangkok to ranong (which we were more than happy to do). The bus ride was about 10 hours long, but it was very scenic. We got to see the country side of thailand and saw our first elephants and monkeys. The bus was full of mostly locals, because not alot of foreigners go to ranong except for a few back packers, so that was a great way to experience the culture. When we arrived in the town of ranong we hopped on two motorcycle taxis which took us to our hotel for the night. It was nice, our hotel was only about 8 dollars. The next morning we went for a walk to the town market and had some fantastic deep fried pastry and some tea with a couple from belgium who gave us great travel tips. Afterwards we made our way back to the hotel where the same motorcycle taxis picked us up and took us to the pier to catch our boat to koh chang. Koh Chang is a small island about 5 km off the west coast of thailand in the anaman sea. After about an hour long boat ride of sitting on rice bags we arrived at koh chang. When we got there the boat drove around the island and stopped on certain beaches to deliver goods, when we saw a beach that interested us we got off and walked to the nearest bungalows. Our home away from home sooon became Mama's Bungalows. Where we got a very modest bungalow with a bed and a toilet with no electricity. On the up side we had a beautiful view of the ocean and not even a minute walk down to the beach. All for only 5 dollars a night. Mama's also had a wonderful little restaurant where we ate like kings for only 3 dollars per person per meal. Two days ago we decided to go for a hike around the island. The trek was very beautiful, we walked through dense jungles and mangrove forest and even stumbled across a coconut farm where the farmer and his three sons got coconuts down from the trees for us, taught us how to open them and fed us fresh coconut milk. Cory tried climbing a tree and opening up a coconut, but they just laughed at his attempts. They also fed us cashew fruits with salt (that we thought was sugar), which caught us by surprise. As a token of our appreciation we tried to give them some money, but they refused. We were very grateful for these refreshments and we went on our way. When we got back to Mama's we got traditional thai massages for an hour and a half for about 8 dollars each. Anneke also played a thai game with the kids of the family who run the bungalows. Besides the Language barrier there was alot of laughter in common, which made us feel right at home. We're going to have trouble leaving tommorow, but it's definelty a place we want to come back to. So far we have learned that the people here are as beautiful as the scenery and are excited to see the rest of thailand. We miss you and want to hear from all of you.

Hi everyone,
it's 7:30 am here in bangkok, and we already had showers and eaten breakfast, which means we are still slightly jet lagged. But, we're both pretty stoked that we got to pet tigers yesterday, and we got some solid pictures to prove it. it was kind of weird because it was called the tiger temple, but there wasn't really a temple, and i'm pretty sure that one of the monks tried to rip us off because when we showed up at this platform thing he was just sitting there reading the paper, and when he saw us he quickly ran over to the statue of buddah and called us over. he m
lit some insense and made us put it in some sand, then made us bow three times, and after he said we had to put money in the pot...we were slightly pissed.
So today anneke and I are heading to the remote province of Ranong and going to the Island of Ko chang to just lay low and rest for a little bit. But the thing is that there is no garuntee that there will be internet so we might not be able to update you for a few days, but if there is internet we will for sure keep you in touch. We're hoping to get a beach hut and just mellow. We're pretty tired of sitting in moving vehicles on end. Yesterday it took us 6 hours in total to get to the temple and back.

We're in Bangkok!

Hello friends,
After a long day (25 hours of straight sunlight) of flying and waiting for flights we finally arrived in Bangkok. We took the advice of taking the taxi from the airport instead of a shuttle and managed to cut the price to our hotel by half! YES! We are currently staying at a hotel called "Nice Palace" and have a beautiful balcony view of downtown Bangkok. There are trees evreywhere and woke up to the sound of tropical birds! In about an hour, we are heading to a Tiger Temple to you guessed it, pet tigers in a temple! Were very excited and if we can figure it out we will send some pictures along in the near future. After tomorrow our plans consist of heading to Ranong to lay low on a nice beach. Were also thinking of hitting up the Khao Sak National Park where we can stay in tree houses and swim in Waterfalls. For all you at Security Decorating, Cory found a Dulux Paint Advertisement in Thai and will try to send the picture later! We hope all is going well in Winnipeg and please let us know about your excitments back home! We miss you all, Love Cory and Anneke.