Bon Om Touk - Water Festival - Day Two

It is good to have a holiday every once in a while. Today was a welcome reprieve as Elder Oveson is fighting off a bit of a cold. We were able to take it a little slow this morning, which gave us a chance Skype with family, to do some laundry, ironing, and a few housekeeping items we don't seem to get to during our regular weeks. We also altered another pair of pants for Elder Oveson. We still need to alter his belt.

We had an Internet meeting to attend with Asia Area Self-Reliance Team, so we headed to the office about noon. We could have connected at our apartment, but we also needed to do our lesson plan for our class on Saturday and that is more easily done at the office. As we finished our meeting and creating our lesson notes, Elder Oveson was ready to call it quits and go home to rest.

Phanna and Sameth took advantage of the office being closed and enjoyed their own Water Festival. They went with a few of their friends to the water and did some fishing. From the pictures we saw, it looks like they had a successful Water Festival!

It is amazing how many gates are closed and Windows shuttered when a holiday comes to Cambodia. Traffic is much lighter, even the little barber shops are closed and shuttered. No haircut this week, unless they happen to be open on Friday. With holiday traffic it only took about five minutes to get between the office and our apartment. We only have a few more days to enjoy the short distance, then we move to a different office which will significantly increase our commute time.

This holiday is big enough that there are fireworks every night. There is a great advantage for scheduling fireworks here! The sun goes down at about 6:00 p.m., so fireworks start about 7:00! We heard the first "booms" at 6:45 tonight. That is much better than having to wait until 9:00 or 10:00 p.m. to start!

For dinner tonight we decided to try something new. We had some chicken we had cooked in the crock pot, cut up a mango, and created Chicken and Mango Salad Sandwiches. They were very tasty! We ate them and totally forgot to take pictures. We will likely make these again!