Aidan and Taylor had requested stuffed toy tigers from Thailand, so I carried a big shopping bag on the plane with pair of very large gold, black and white striped Bengal tigers for two happy boys.
They were in school but we still found time to ride bikes, go to the park and eat yummy ice cream.
Then we read books, had a pizza party and watched movies with popcorn. We even made a lemon cake, blueberry muffins and decorated cupcakes with multi-colored sprinkles. All very American things that I don’t do in Thailand. The time flew by and it was hard to believe the visit was over and I had to fly back to school and teaching. 
I was fortunate to be able to fly into the Bangkok airport unaffected by the flooding, however the cab ride home was a bit scary as we drove through streets with water covering the wheels of the taxi. Then we stalled at one of the freeway toll booths…finally a push and we were off. I was very grateful to get home. On a brighter side, back at school the kids seem to be unaffected by the surrounding devastation, and we were in full swing with preparations for our school celebration of HALLOWEEN, making paper chains, bats, spider webs orange paper pumpkins, scary masks and Kleenex ghosts for decorations. It could have been any school in America… complete with costumes of Spiderman, Batman, Snow White and a wide variety of Witches, including me. We had a big Halloween party complete with games and candy. Happily we bobbed for apples, carried an egg on a spoon and ate cookies with no hands The older students even created a frightfully scarey haunted house for the younger kids to visit…spooky fun for all.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN
