cha laaem.

[usually of female beauty]: adj.  healthy; happy; glowing; beautiful.

These are the precious girls I will be going to greet in Thailand this June 29th-July 17th.  The live at Breanna's House of Joy, a girl's orphanage in Chiang Mai.  Aunt Terry, Uncle Steve, my dear friend Angie, and a group of high school students will be making the trip to aide, lead, play with, teach, and learn from this cast of young women.  We will also be taking a few days to play on the beach, ride elephants, and drink beverages served only out of coconuts.  Yeah, that's no reason.  This is why I insisted on an 8 week assignment in Texas and why I was so distraught over the idea of having to take a regular staff RN job somewhere.  These annual trips have been going for a while, and I just decided that this year, I really have no business not going.  I missed last year because of Cardiac Camp.  Not this year.  This year Panda's gonna go be changed.  I already know that these girls and that nation will have so much to open my eyes to and so much to show me about the awesomeness of the human condition.  First things first.  

Watch this.  BE inspired to move about the cabin.  Love Love Love.