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Tomorrow is our last day in Charlotte before we leave for Thailand!  I can’t believe it’s here already! Robo and I will be prayed for in church tomorrow at Steele Creek Church of Charlotte.  If you’re in town, we’d love for you to join us!  Service times are at 9:15 and 11:15. 

On our new website, www.rachelandrobo.com, we asked our readers to post us an interesting fact about Thailand.  We got all kinds of responses.  I think my favorite is the fact that Thailand is known as “The Land of Smiles”.  Visitors to the country are considered guests, and the happy faces of Thai people are known worldwide.  I’m so excited to get to see these people for the first time next week!  As we’ve learned more about Thailand, we’ve learned some other interesting things.  For example, a Buddhist monk cannot touch a woman without becoming unclean.  So if I see an empty seat next to a monk, I should not sit next to him!  But apparently Robo could.  Interesting!

When I was a child, we watched “The King and I.”  After learning the country’s name was “Siam,” I tried finding it on my globe.  No such luck.  It wasn’t until a little later that I found out that Siam is now named Thailand.  As I’ve been packing and preparing this week, snatches of songs from “The King and I,” keep coming back to me.  Most often, it’s been “Getting To Know You.”  I’m so excited for this opportunity to “get to know” the people of Thailand for a little bit.  To share their culture, their food, their city.  And I hope that as Robo and I are out and about filming and taking pictures, I find that the people of Thailand are, “putting it nicely, [maybe] precisely, my cup of tea!”

And for kicks, here’s the song I’m talking about.  My apologies for it being a bit Western-centric.  :p