Last Night's Party at Auntie Ron's Place
Okay, it was actually a cell group, but it does feel like a party! Auntie wanted it at her place so we went up there around 7 p.m. toting curries, rice in rice-cooker, fried garlic dried pork, some scary hot pepper/fermented fish concoction, & unfrosted cupcakes baked by Poppy. (They can hardly stand the frosting on cakes, it is too sweet.) Auntie Ron is in her 50's and is a tsunami-Christian. We were a little surprised to see a spirit shelf on her wall, complete with idol, incense & candles, but we will talk about that one later, it often takes Thais a long time to get over their fears of retribution from the spirits. Maybe seeing all of us looking at it will be the catalyst she needs to get over her fear and take it down. Her son and his friend working at a nearby resort were there, too. Some of us got out the family photo books and started flipping around in them. We wondered if the "lady-boy" in the pictures was him or someone else, another brother??? Later, K...