lindyluwho, fun photo - looks like a good time:-) socks12345 - my late grandfather's friend lives in the park, too, and has a granddaughter that's supposed to be involved with the SPCA here. She's coming to visit him tomorrow, and we're supposed to meet. It might be a bit before she can foster her, though. I think we'll wind up seeing if she can be with our dogs for now, so at least she'll be enclosed. Our dogs are small, but still at least 2x's as big as she is... She's so funny looking and cute, and wants to be loved so very desperately. She'll make someone a great little house dog, and be their shadow, I think:-) She will need training, but she's smart and young. P.S. The same thing happens to loose dogs here. In all the many places we've lived, we've never seen as many strays as here:-(

Bob, great pics of the wonderful outdoors. I've always thought a fox hunt would be fun except i can't stay on a jumping horse without sliding sideways ;-).

Got up @ 2am Saturday morning so we could drive 3.5hrs to the crane festival and shoot the sunrise. This is when the birds cross over from standing in water to avoid being eaten by predators at night....to crossing over to farmers fields to eat grain.

Raven, in all the time we spent in Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, I only saw two of those squatters and they were in older, rural areas. Restaurants, hotels, malls and other public areas all had regular western style toilets if they were in towns or cities that have western tourists visit on a regular basis. The airports also had the squatters, but they also had plenty of western toilets as well. I think that was because the airports get so many travelers from places where squatters are the norm and they sometimes don't know what to make of a western style toilet. The malls in Bangkok had signs in the stalls that said the toilets were not for feet washing.