Thailand

So we've had spotty internet coverage in Thailand, so we haven't kept up with friends real well. Sorry about that.

So a quick 'thought of the day'. We went for a 60 minute elephant ride this afternoon. Pretty cool time. nathan and emily both got to 'drive' the elephants for most of the trip as the guide walked behind us. They got to sit on the elephant's head and hold on to its ears as we hiked up and down some pretty steep terrain. Pretty cool stuff.

On the way back to our hotel, we rode on a courtesy van. In the window, there was the customary instruction stickers. Do not smoke. A cigarette with a circle and a slash. No music in the van. A radio with a circle and a slash. You get the point. There were like 10 stickers and being the old guy who has seen it all, you just glance at them and say 'oh, they don't want me to use a firearm in the van. Got it'. My youngest is not so jaded. He wants to go through every one. 'Hey dad, I think this sticker is telling us not to use bombs in the van. This sticker is saying. . . '

Then you get to the 'Dad, what does this sticker mean? Is this telling us not to wrestle in the van?' This has to pique your interest. I look over and take a closer look at the stickers. There was a sticker with 2 people having sex with a circle and a slash through it. Not sure why you need a sticker to tell you to not have sex in a courtesy van, but there it was, and now Jonathan was determeined to figure out what that sticker was telling him what not to do.

A better father may have used this opportunity to introduce the topic of sexuality with his 7 year old son. I stalled. This technique led Jonathan to come up with a new theory regarding the picture - that it actually meant not to change a baby's daiper in the van. I'm not sure how a silouette of 2 people having sex turned into a diaper change, but after he said it I convinced myself that he might be right.