One room is decorated with bright silkscreen paper lamps and Thai musical instruments as they get ready for a performance.
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Chris, Tanya, & Chase
A Teacher, a Traveler, a Yogini, a Caregiver, a Wife, and a New Mommy
About Me
- Tanya Mau-Halsall
- I am a 33 year old elementary school teacher, born and raised in Honolulu, Hawai'i. After living in Seattle and overseas in Thailand for a total of 12 years, I returned to Hawai'i to help take care of my father, who was diagnosed with ALS, a.k.a. Lou Gherig's Disease, in October 2004. After 2 1/2 years of watching his body slowly decline, my father earned his wings April 2007 and is no longer suffering. The past couple of years was spent sharing valuable time together and making more memories, as my father got to "walk" me down the aisle, though he was a couple months shy of seeing the birth of his first grandchild. And now, with new life, the journey continues with baby Chase, as I learn how to balance teaching, marriage, and being a mom. This online journal is a way for me to express myself, through my love of traveling, photography, and writing, while keeping in touch with family and friends.
Blog Archive
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February
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- Saying Goodbye
- Erin, Tess, and a girl from Israel we met, have fu...
- Of course Khao San Road, the popular street of bar...
- Tanya and Tess tumbling, I mean walking, on Khao S...
- Tess' favorite thing in Thailand......Coca-Cola in...
- The Danish, American, New Zealander, and Israeli f...
- I don't think the girls want to leave Thailand!
- Top Awards 2004
- P'Nice, Tik, Aw, and I went to the Top Awards show...
- We took a peek inside the live taped awards show a...
- We mingle and eat with the stars at a reception af...
- The closest I'll ever get to getting a Top Award!
- This Thai show won many awards for best actress an...
- With a former Ms. Thailand
- Chischa, her character's name on TV, otherwise kno...
- These good-looking couple of actors draw a lot of ...
- P'Nice standing in front of the reception area bef...
- Tik poses with a Thai actor.
- These comedians love to take funny pictures with t...
- Let's all strike a pose......Guess you don't have ...
- Young budding actresses entering the Thai acting w...
- Op is his name.....He's so lovely!
- Sexy actresses all in a row.
- Winning actresses at the Top Awards 2004 hold thei...
- "Law" - means handsome in Thai.
- Tik with actress in creative denim dress.
- Aw is giddy and ecstatic to be at the Top Awards!
- Beautiful statues near Sanam Luang lit up at night...
- Kung Hay Fat Choy! On Chinese New Year's Day, wea...
- My Thai decor and pillows in my room.
- P'Pau and her niece Prael. Prael now calls me by ...
- Grace, Better Lay Off the Beer Next Time!
- Eat, But No Talk
- Bring A City Girl to the Country and This Is What ...
- Sitting on top of the truck, Ray's neighbor enjoy...
- A truck brings another load of cows in for the com...
- Hundreds of cows are trucked in from different pro...
- Six men try to hold a cow back that has gotten out...
- The cows ran so fast. Occasionally one got angry ...
- One by one, cows are added and then as they run fa...
- The object is for the last cow to race up and pass...
- The center of the ring...Getting the cows ready fo...
- The Thai ice cream "sandwich" - literally two scoo...
- The neighbors across the way have cows and a calf....
- Part of a temple in Ray's village.
- Fresh meat and fish for sale!
- We went to buy vegetables, fish, pork skewers, and...
- A vendor sits on a basket waiting for customers to...
- Jam, Ray's cousin, pumps clean drinking water into...
- Ray fries up a fish for part of our breakfast in t...
- All day Saturday and Sunday, Ray's grandmother pee...
- Look who just took a bath!
- Fern helps her mom and Ray's grandmother peel pean...
- "Oh, these peeling peanut shells is exhausting! I...
- Fern, the year and a half year old from across the...
- YEEM!!!! ("Smile!")
- A neighbor boy loves to take pictures! The 10 yea...
- Ray's grandmother poses for a picture.
- A neighbor boy rides his bicycle over to Ray's hou...
- Three friends just hanging out and having fun, pai...
- Eye, a friend of Jam's, loved to laugh and smile f...
- Lay, a friend of Jam's, came over to play, but was...
- Jomjam, or "Jam", Ray's 10 year old cousin who li...
- Comes from a tree similar to a coconut tree, and ...
- Aw cutting the skin off of the coconut-like fruit ...
- Adorable faces.........
- The girls are hungry......and I'm headed there, as...
- Each afternoon, a snack stand on a motorcycle come...
- Lay, Jam, and Eye.........Ray's cousin is in the ...
- To the Top of the Hill for Petchaburi Festival
- Sitting on a motorcycle, waiting at a stoplight, I...
- Behind me is the town of Petchaburi.
- A temple and park down below in the city.
- A woman weaves a basket
- Artists show their paintings at the festival.
- Archways of a temple
- An old theater and museum on the temple grounds.
- An artisan demonstrates Thai sculpting with clay.
- We climbed many stairs to see the views and explor...
- A dog tramples up the stairs as guards stand by.
- A circular temple with the Thai flag flying by.
- A doorway to a walkway
- Just being goofy.........
- Many plumeria trees (although I can't remember wha...
- Ray and Aw
- The Buddha taught his disciples: "When you see, j...
- Thai Buddhists visit wats, or temples, whenever th...
- At about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the sun was b...
- A Buddha statue with gold paper all over that peop...
- How do they carve these roofs?!
- Basking in the sunshine under an umbrella.
- All of the temples had lanais or walkways around t...
- During the day the temple grounds were nice to wal...
- One of the many temples on top of the hill in Petc...
- The skylight above
- The winding stairwell to get to the top of the cir...
- My "Charlie's Angels" pose.
- Aw pulls Ray to say "Let's head back down!" as sh...
- Aw and Ray
- The Thai Flag
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1 comment:
Those lamps are beautiful!
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