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Happy father's day to all the Thongvanh fathers! Hope your father's day was great!

merry mother's day to all of the thongvanh mothers!

for the chinese new year, i took a vacation to thailand. i was there for three weeks. the weather was hot during the day, which was exactly what i needed, and cool in the evenings. first we went to go visit friends in chiangmai and got out to see some jungle. chiang mai is a nice nice city. very relaxed and lots of comforting things: good book stores, good coffee, friendly people, and good english language publications. lots of things that are real hard to come by here in china.

Well obviously there's a difference in the site. For anyone that cares I upgraded our site from Drupal 4.x to 6.x. The theme is a bit different but temporary.

The upgrade was because Drupal 6 give us some additional security features that actually make the site *easier* to use!

More info to come.

Thanks and sorry for the inconsistency-

okay, for everyone who didnt know, i went to europe for christmas vacation. i spent two weeks there. i spent new years in ljubljana with a bunch of friends that i made in china. we had people from germany, china, and serbia all getting back together! it was great to see them all again. for christmas, i went to venice for about three days. it was beautiful there, but a bit cold.

here are some links to pictures on picasaweb:

piran and bled, slovenia

venice, italy

here's a giant fish we had tonight, it was as big as Trevor! If you haven't already, check out France Christmas pictures on Chris' flickr!

(go to allison's flickr to see the fish)

Pictures of A-Cham and some deer he and his friends hunted are on my flickr, so click on Allison's Flickr to see them!

PS I tried to blogit! through flickr but I don't know what kind of blog this is... so I couldn't put in an end point etc. How do I put pictures like the boys' pumpkin pictures up?

We recently receive a large amount of comment spam. Sorry for the bad language that was on the website. Today I removed almost 2000 comments from the website that were spam.

If I'm accidentally removed a comment you made I'm sorry but it can't be recovered.

We will have to keep fighting comment spam so if you see something on here that should not be here please let me know.

Thanks-
thong

well, after everyone left france, iseng took me to visit toulouse for a day, then dropped me off in some random place in the pyrenees where i hiked up to a place called sauvegarde peak. its about 8000 feet above sea level, with something like 60 switchbacks on the trail. i camped for one night there, and summited twice because i didnt camp far from it. after that, i began my trip out to visit my friend in prague. first i went to barcelona by train, then flew to the brno in the czech republic, took a bus to prague, then another bus to frankfurt, germany where i flew back to china.

the trip only last about two weeks, but i got to see a lot of beautiful places. barcelona was pretty incredible. i couldnt walk around too much because my knee was sore from hiking. unfortunately, i didnt take too many pictures there, but the weather and architecture was amazing.