Bon Om Touk - Water Festival - Day One

We have often heard that when the moon is full strange things can happen.  In Cambodia they have one of their three day holidays when the moon is full in November, called the Water festival. Reading the history about this holiday there are several reasons given for the holiday.  In the ancient Khmer Dynasty the Kings relied upon the rivers to get to the battles and this holiday was kind of a military parade of their readiness and might.  It also marks the end of raining season when the Tonle Sap River begins to flow South instead of North.

Our office is closed for the next three days so we just stayed and worked from home today.  In many ways that was good for Elder Oveson because he is now fighting his first Cambodian cold.  We have fortunately found a good Pharmacy where we were able to pick up some cold meds that we recognized.

Sister Oveson put her donated sewing machine to good use again today taking in one of Elder Oveson's suit pants.  Now he won't have to keep them up by cinching his belt as tight as it goes.  Elder Oveson worked on his talk for Stake Conference, he is speaking in the Leadership Session on Saturday.  Since he will have someone translating for him he wanted it all written out, he will send it to the translator to give him a chance to look at it ahead of time.

This afternoon we ventured out to take care of some errands, including going to the Pharmacy.  We had to go to the bank, really ATM, to get some more cash.  Then on to our favorite french bakery for a treat, almond croissant. We only go there every so often we are still trying to lose weight.  Then on to one of the grocery stores that has the best cereal selection.  Last time we went to this store they were out of Cinnamon Toast Crunch, but we had our emergency supply at home, three boxes squirreled away.  We were pleasantly surprised to find it back in stock and we still have a spare.  We also found Vanilla Chex another wonderful change for us.  More important was out front were two competing vendors selling fresh Mangos.  We have had some from the store recently that were not very sweet.  The ones we bought today were fabulous.