Monkeys!

Andrew and I have been blessed to work alongside a short-term team from our church these last few weeks.  It has been a blast working and playing with them.  They will be missed! A few of the things that we did for fun is go to a zoo here in Southeast Asia and a water park.  Let me just say that the zoo is nothing like what we have in the States.  Here they let the monkeys just climb all over you!

He was trying to take that can away from me!

We also went to another part of the place and saw some Orangutans. These guys were funny and crazy all at the same time!  They had an island to themselves and we had to take a ferry out there to see them.

Heading out to the island kind of felt a little like Jurassic Park...

Here are a couple of the Orangutans.  They were really playful and we were told that they had the strength of 10 men.  It's hard to not want to take the baby one home but we can all see on the news what happens when they grow up in someone's house!

Our team also acted like a lot of monkeys at this water park.  It's kind of hard to imagine, but we played a game of "king of the hill" on this giant inflatable bubble.  It had to be anywhere from 15 to 20 feet tall and it was sitting in a pool of water that surrounded it.  Water would run down the sides and there were ropes there to help you up.  There were bodies flying everywhere and I think the people standing in line got a great show.  We just all got really worn out and sore bodies...  Fun times though!

Work has been going great as well, and getting adjusted to this side of the world has been easier with our short-term team that were with us for these first two weeks.  David, Celeste, Richie & Britten, I miss you guys already! If you see any of them, please ask about South East Asia and our work here.