A Special Request For All Who Read Our Blog

As we prepared for our mission we decided that a blog would be fun to try and do every day as our journal. With it being on the internet our family and friends could read it if they wanted and we would not have to send it as an attachment to our letter.

We were surprised our first full month in Cambodia that the page views were over a 1,000, but the next month it went down to barely above a thousand. We figured that the novelty had worn off and so we needed to be happy that we had a history of our adventures.

Then something amazing happened. The page views started going back up and peaked out in July at over 50 a day, and more than 1,500 for the month. The number of views per month went down gradually until October it was again barely over 1,000 for the month. Again our page views went back up in November and December, and so far for January we are over 50 page views a day again.

Now for a special request. January 31st is our hump day, half of our mission will have slipped by. We would appreciate it if you would put on your calendar the 31st to look at five blog posts, even if you have looked at all of them already like our daughter Marla. We want the 31st to be our largest day ever. That will help us feel the energy to keep posting every day for the last half of our mission.

It would not be a normal blog post with out the picture for the day. Even after being here ten and a half months we still see interesting things on the roads as we go through the crazy traffic of Phnom Penh. In the top left corner is a couple carrying cages of birds to go and sell at the Wat, you release them for good luck. Next is a picture of the vehicle video system, a moto with a old tube style TV strapped to the back. There are lots of fruit vendors and the fruit always looks so good, but we still have to wash them before we can eat them. The street vendor on the bike cart was right out in the middle of traffic effectively blocking both lanes as we tried to get through a busy intersection. And finally, we have no idea how they stack the loads so high, it is not heavy because they are styrofoam containers, but notice the guy standing next to the load, it is probably at least fifteen feet high.