Fun in the Sun!

A few weeks ago, Hudson and I had the opportunity to go to Thailand for a homeschool conference.  Sadly, Hannah and Rob couldn't go, so my boy and I had a week to ourselves!  I can't tell you how wonderful it is to have a son to travel with who carries my luggage, pushes the cart, knows how to read maps and can lead me places, etc....  It's a little bit like traveling with his dad. :)  So, I carried my purse around the airports and Hudson led me around pushing the luggage cart, he carried the heavy bags up the stairs to our hotel room, and I enjoyed every minute of it.  Yippee!!

We arrived in Bangkok with some good friends, and spent the evening with them at a new mall having a great time before the conference started the next day.

The mall had a Tony Roma's which was GOOOD!!! Here is Hudson having his obligatory Thailand hamburger, which he exclaimed was the best burger he had ever eaten! Wow!

 This mall was brand new and each floor was themed as a country.  This floor was the Japanese floor.  It was truly beautiful!

 Also the Japanese floor.  Picture with me turning the corner and directly in front of you are these bigger-than-life sumo wrestlers, clad in their sumo outfits.  We all got a little tickled at the sight.  Hudson posed with the statues for this picture.

 This is the Great Britain themed level. Hudson - playing it cool. Maybe feeling a little tired of my pictures.

 Sweet friends.

 We had a great time at the mall walking around and enjoying the views.  As always, our mall visit ended in the grocery store as we stocked up on things we might need (snacks) in our hotel room for the homeschool conference.  Thankfully they had a lot of good snacks that we can't find where we live.

Once we arrived at the conference we had such a good time seeing old friends and meeting new ones.  This picture below really makes my heart happy.  We have known this sweet girl since she was a baby.  Now she is in the 1st grade and growing up so fast!

 Each year there is a big project that all the kids prepare before coming to the conference.  This year focused on literary elements and was themed Story Book Characters.  Every child picked a book and had to dress up as a character in the book.  One night we had a story book parade, where everyone told who they were and what book they were from.  Hudson dressed up as King Tirian from The Last Battle (the last book in the Narnia series)

 Hudson's project was to decorate a cereal box with instructions on what to put on each side.  It was basically a book report on the cereal box.  One night he displayed his cereal box and all the parents, and kids not in his age group came around and asked questions about the chose book.  Here is Hudson telling about his project to some onlookers.

 The best part of the homeschool conference is being with friends! These are Hudson's friends, who graciously let me take a picture of them on the last day.

And.....well....... these are some of my friends, celebrating a sweet girl's birthday! 

 Below is where we spent EVERY afternoon.  Wouldn't you?

 As we raced through the airport on our way home, we found we had enough time for an early lunch....and so Hudson got his other favorite Thailand meal.....Burger King.

We were so thankful for this week together and thankful for the opportunity to attend the homeschool conference.  It was a lot of fun and a great week together