January 4, 2007
            Well The whirlwind is not over yet.  I had a good Solstice, Christmas and New Years Eve.  Now I am planning for the Starfish dedication on Saturday, my birthday on Sunday and I leave for Laos on Monday.  In Laos I will be doing a visa run, but the goal is to apply for and get another type O non-immigrant 3 month visa.  This is tricky and I am gathering documents, letters and other random trinkets in hopes of this process working.  If it doesn’t, too bad and I have to deal with the delight of tourist visas.  While I am waiting for the visa gods to smile on me, I hope to travel around.  There are many wonderful things I want to see but time is an issue as I also have to reenter Thailand before this visa runs out, otherwise my new visa that we have worked so hard to get, is void!!!  Hopefully I can get the visa, see some cool stuff and not be in a complete hurry.  We will see.
            So after I get back into Thailand on or around the 15th I have a two week vacation!  I plan on heading south and going to the World Rainbow Gathering.  Flora is also getting to Thailand and heading south so I hope to see her for a bit.  Again and as always, time will tell. 
            After my vacation we are taking the children on a field trip to the sea.  I have already set it up so I can meet everyone at the beach rather than travel north only to get in a bus and head south.
            Random crazy fun times ahead.  It will definitely be an adventure.  I don’t know how much contact I will have in the next month or so but I will try to check email semi-regularly.  I hope you are all doing well and not having to deal with visas as regularly as all of us in Thailand have to.  Love and Light
-Alice
-Free

P.S. Before sending this message I tried to book my ticket to Laos and there are no flights on Monday.  So I can leave tomorrow, or on my birthday, or risk not getting the visa in time, or try a bus or train, or or I don’t know.  Like I said…ADVENTURE.