Kimberly in Thailand

Kimberly is in Thailand right now with the BYU Ballroom Dance Company and will be going to Vietnam in about a week or so. She sent a few pictures so I thought I would post them here for easier viewing.

Kimberly trying to match the Buddha on the mountain (which is made with gold inlaid into the stone).

Brent and the sushi section of the lunch buffet at their hotel. Something else that they especially liked was the sticky rice with mango and coconut sauce.

The group had a tour of a winery there (don't ask me why). Here they are drinking some grape juice from the winery (fresh, before fermentation . . . honestly!). This was after their first show that they did for some handicapped children in an orphanage.

Some kind of gourds hung from a trellis at the winery.

Young boys in training to be monks (novices). The man in the back of the group is their cultural adviser, a professor from BYU.

Brent and his trainer from his mission in front of the Buddha -- the most famous one in Thailand.

Brent in front of the church in Bangkok where they had their Sunday meetings. They had translators for them so they could understand what was going on since the meetings were in Thai.

Kimberly posing with a woman (in purple) who was taught by a childhood friend, Kara Lawrence, who served a mission in Thailand. The girl is the woman's granddaughter. This woman had gotten up to bear her testimony in Sacrament meeting and said that she had been taught by sister missionaries two years before. After church, Kimberly found someone who could translate and asked who the sister missionaries were. As she suspected and hoped, it was Kara, whom she has known since preschool!

Brent and Kimberly in front of their hotel. They said it was beautiful and restful -- especially nice to come home to after a big show! They are able to stay here for several days and travel out to the shows.

Brent and Kimberly trying to fit inside the Thai taxi. (It is a motorized three-wheeler.) Called a "tuk tuk."

Inside the tuk tuk.

Kimberly eating coconut ice cream inside a coconut after a four-course meal. She said that they are treated like royalty. (I hope she doesn't expect that kind of treatment when she gets home! :-)

Drinking coconut milk straight from the coconut. (Brent called it coconut water and said that they used to drink this all the time on his mission in the Dominican Republic.)