Staying or Going?

I have not yet figured out how to put pictures on here.  If any of you know how to do that, please let me know, as it would be a lot more interesting for you reading.

The question came whether we should just plan on staying here in Chiang Mai until we were all well and since we were registered to go to a ECHO Asia seminar on agriculture later next week anyway, or go back.  Staying would save us a trip back to Sunshine Orchard and back again, a long drive, plus more importantly prevent everyone at the school from getting our sickness.  We called Lena and asked her what she would advise and with her recommendation we just planned to stay, get well, and then attend the meetings next week we had already planned on attending.  But that brought a new problem, where would we stay?  The place we were at was already booked.  This cooler time is tourist time, plus the Chinese New Year and all it's celebration is going on starting next week and the following 2 weeks after that, for a total of 3 weeks.  Mike and Marilee came by Wed. evening to drop off some Emergency-vitamin C, as they were going to be in the area visiting a friend anyway.  We had originally planned on being together Wed. evening, but with all the kids sick and now Laren was beginning to succumb also, we did not want to share this bug with them anymore than Miles already did on our way up.

While M & M visited Claire, they also were looking around at any possible places that we could stay at that wouldn't use up all our money on this unexpected lengthened stay.  They found a good option, but I felt it to risky as it had very steep stairs without handrails that we would have to use to go from our rooms to the shared bathroom downstairs.  Everyone who got this "bug", was VERY dizzy.  I could just imagine trying to help Laren down the stairs and both of us tumbling down to the bottom in a heap.  We ruled that option out.  M & M and I started walking to see what else we could find.  We walked to the Sirproom House.  Yes, they had a room.  One even, that was big enough for all 5 us to be in the same room on the ground floor for 700 bath (roughly around $25) a night!  It was an answer to prayer.  The owners said we could come as early as we wanted the next morning.

I knew the next morning I would be busy transferring everything down the narrow road way (it seems like alleys to me, but they are very busy with people on foot, in cars or motorcycles), to our new location.  But we had one more night to sleep in our original rooms and then we would move. What a blessing having a place to stay, with warm water, a shower, a toilet (western at that!), toilet paper and beds.  It all seems like such a luxury knowing how we will be living when we return to our home at the school, but so be it, it is all such a privilege to be able to help, to be needed and to have God making the path clear before our feet.  Tomorrow will be another day.