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This picture shows Amy's parents, Shirley and Clint, in the lobby of the Amari Boulevard Hotel. Shirly and Clint accompanied us to Thailand, and were with us throughout the entire adoption process.

Amari Boulevard Hotel, where we all stayed, was fabulous. For one thing, they charged us the Thai room rate, rather than the rate usually charged to foreigners (i.e., double). The reason they did this was that the Thai adoption agency through which we worked (Holt Sahathai, a branch of Holt International) helped us set things up. The hotel's management supports what Hold is doing, I guess, and of course so do we.

I liked the Amari Boulevard Hotel a lot. It's near the action, and it's easy to get from there to the US Embassy, where we had some work to do. It's also near some red-light-ish areas, and in general we saw a lot of very young Thai women hanging around with a lot of fairly old western men. There were also some Japanese men. And in fact an apparent brothel just down the street had a sign out front in English that read "Japanese only."