We have arrived!

Hello friends & family! We have officially arrived and spent our first night in Bangkok. It is 10 in the morning here, currently, and we are preparing to begin our first full day in the country. To catch you up on the trip over, everything went very smoothly. Being my first flight and all, I wasn't sure what to expect, but I handled it like a champ, according to Lyndsey and Janette anyway. We flew from DC to Detroit, then Detroit to Tokyo, then Tokyo to Bangkok. We hit a couple roadbumps in Bangkok, like not being allowed out of the airport because we didn't have the address of Beginnings, but we finally got everything taken care of, and arrived back at Beginnings around 1:30 am. On our drive back, our taxi driver took us through the redlight district. It was good to see this from a distance, I think, before we begin going out and ministering in the bars. Driving down one side street, we literally saw 30-40 girls just lined up, approaching the cars that drove by. None of them looked to be older than 16 or 17. As we entered the 'bar area', we passed Nanabar (?) which is a block, 3 stories high of just bars. About 2,000 prostitutes are employed there. As we looked around, we saw western men with young thai girls everywhere. Although we knew to expect this, seeing it firsthand is so much more difficult to come to grips with. Thanks so much for your continued prayers, I will keep you all posted as we found we have internet in our room! I love and miss you all, feel free to email or facebook me, since I'll be able to keep in contact daily.