We are settling in nicely at the new house, the daily flow is going well - but just as things are getting smoother - I remember (luckily!) that my visa entry is expiring! As a US passport holder I get 30 days tourist visa on entry into the Kingdom of Thailand.

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So - basically - we have to find a new place to live and we are leveraging Wendy’s Chinese WeChat groups of mommies. A whole bunch of rent direct from owner hookups came from it.

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So in today’s video blog I am just relaxing a bit on the weekend with the family. Doing my morning work as always - and then a nice afternoon with the wife and kids.

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I’m sitting on the floor - pavement - here in Promenada mall in Chiang Mai - hoping that I make it to get a queue (number) for my daughter to convert her tourist visa into an education visa. This has been about the fourth or fifth day of this saga - depending on how you count it (some days we didn’t count as we couldn’t get a number).

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A nice way to enter into our two hundredth video blog here at Mike’s Blog - getting kicked (if you call it that) in the private parts by an elephant.

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Have only been in Thailand for about a month and have been back to Hong Kong and various cities in China a couple times already! I think it is just the transition and there have been some close events that have been hard to move. After this Yiwu trip the back and forth should slow down.

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These kids will have such a rich and diverse upbringing. It is one thing I won’t regret - having Miles and Maggie exposed to so many cultures and personalities. Not even five years old and have traveled to America, China, Thailand, with exposure to English, Mandarin Chinese, Thai, and even my wife’s local hometown dialect Dongbei Hua.

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How do you make a change in your life? Or are you just taking the changes others give you?

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Spending Thursday going through my belongings - deciding what to give away and what to throw away - and see if anyone would actually buy anything - I’m trying to have less stuff. If I haven’t missed it for a couple months - then it can’t be that important, right?

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I do apologize about the last video’s lack of seat belts - we are doing it going forward. Also we are sending the kids with the private driver to and from school on their own now. We have a WeChat group of Wendy’s family and they are all so nervous about this - but for how long can me or my father in law drive with the kids, sit in the coffee shop all day, and drive back? Or drive there for 20 min and drive back and forth.

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