One New Year Celebration Down, Two to Go!

Have we ever mentioned that Cambodia likes to celebrate holidays? It seems one New Year celebration is not enough. These people are getting ready for two more. The Christmas trees and displays for International New Year are still in place, they might as well just keep adding. The next holiday will be Chinese New Year, February 7th - 14th, thus the Chinese lanterns are going up all around us. The pictures really don't do justice to how grand these lanterns are. These are about 18" to 20" in diameter, and we have seen other sizes around town.

Our day today was varied between projects at the office, Service Center Devotional, and District meeting at the South Stake Center. Then after a few hours at the office this afternoon, we left the office early to pick up Cream Puffs for tomorrow. Transfers are this week so we will be making inspections on some missionary apartments in the morning. We were told about some cream puffs at "Beard Papa" at the mall. So many of the pastries we have tried at the stores have had so little cream filling inside that we were quite impressed as we watched them inject the cream inside these puff pastries, then weigh them to make sure they had enough. They were very tasty! We hope the apartments are clean and missionaries are deserving of such a treat!