A Day Of Reports and Motos

This morning we settled in at the office with lots of things to catch up. Being the first of the month, as well as the first of the year we have reports to be done. Elder Oveson had a project to finish for the stake calendar and goals so they can be submitted to the Area Seventy, then to Hong Kong by tomorrow. We also had our team meeting to make plans for our Cambodia Self-Reliance team for this week.

Before we knew it the clock was at 12:00 and it was time for lunch. (We have learned that you don't mess with lunch time for the Cambodians, and they "Never Don't eat rice.") As Sister Oveson went to the break room to retrieve our loaf of bread and jars of jam so we could make peanut butter sandwiches, Elder Meinzer invited us to take a walk and get some lunch. Sounded great to us! We chose Magnolia, which is a Vietnamese restaurant. We ordered a Vietnamese Pancake, which is like a crisp crepe filled with meat and bean sprouts, and we tried something new called Cup Cakes. These were small, not really a muffin but about that size, with chicken in them. They were pretty good and we will probably try them again in the future.

Back at the office we felt like we put a little dent in our projects of the day, and quickly found the work day had come to a close.

As we traveled home we were just wondering what we might use for our picture of the day when a moto crept past us loaded with a mattress. This brought our attention to the traffic around us where we also saw a tree moving down the road (pulled of course by a moto), and as we prepared to turn on our little alley we had to wait for a ladder to move out of the way (you guessed it, on a moto). We rounded out our pictures with one more moto we saw on our way to the office, we guess they were headed to market. What we see around this city is always quite entertaining. We may be tempted to close our eyes to get through traffic, but if we did we would miss so much that we would never see at home in the states.