cherry blossom trees

apparently when you tell people you are moving to another continent they expect that you have visited it – at least once. and when you tell them you haven’t they generally look at you like your mad and try to find something encouraging to say – you know like “oh, well that will be nice” or “that’s very brave of you”. then when they discover how little you know about the culture you’re moving to they just start feeling sorry for your kids. i happen to think it’s very funny that my kids believe the best representation of asian food is panda express. everyone else thinks this is cause for concern. I am also pretty sure my boys think the home of pokemon and nintendo must be the coolest place ever. we can’t seem to convince them that Thailand is not that place. Iive got one who hopes we have a great big cherry blossom shade tree in the backyard. so much to learn… why rush it?

And for those of you who might be a little concerned about this, we will be receiving some kind of counseling about Thailand and the culture… just not sure what that looks like, yet.