the helmicks come to visit!

My sister and brother-in-law, Keri and Steven Helmick, came to visit us and meet the community during July 4th weekend. I've included some pictures--sadly, I don't have any of Keri with the kids because she took most of the pictures.

We brought out painting, but within a few minutes it became an experimental mixing game.

Here Steven is playing takraw with the teenagers. It is similar to hackysack with a hard plastic ball; I had brought one back from Thailand two years ago. They love it and are very good. Steven was the best white person that played...

Here we are all playing takraw at the park before watching fireworks. We took a big group of teenagers to go see the town fireworks and it was quite an adventure! It was great to see their faces, though, as most (if not all) had never seen fireworks like that before.