Friends in Asia and the Orussey Market

We have enjoyed expanding our group of friends as we spend time in the South East part of the world. We are just amazed at how far-reaching our friends and acquaintances come from. Today was another Asia Area video conference with the PEF team. Marco introduced us to a visitor, Louis, from Headquarters who was visiting Hong Kong as he is making a tour throughout much of the area. Countries represented in the meeting were Hong Kong, Thailand, Pakistan, Taiwan, India, Indonesia, and Mongolia, as well as our team in Cambodia. We received some very good training and had several questions answered that should help us with PEF.

This afternoon we recruited Elder and Sister Meinzer and went shopping. We needed a few things to help organize our apartment, and Elder Meinzer was our best source of information. We stopped first at an appliance store looking for a small countertop oven. We found what we like but needed to measure and decide exactly where we would put it before we buy it and bring it home. (Which means we will have to go back again tomorrow.)

Next stop was Orussey Market. We have heard of this market but had not ventured there on our own. This is not so much of a tourist stop as a local three or four story warehouse type market, although tourists could definitely find plenty to see and buy there. We found rows and rows of shoe displays as well as wigs and hair accessories. We walked through large areas of books,  jewelry, yarn and thread, backpacks and purses, and we didn't go through it all. It was over 100* F outside and we were melting inside. We escaped the sauna inside for the heat outside.

One more stop as we looked for some cheap wicker furniture.  We thought some of our grandkids would like the little chairs or the hanging egg chair. We thought of our new little grandson who is due in just a few weeks when we saw this lovely cradle. We finally settled on just the right piece for our apartment and bought two wicker shelves for the bathrooms for $9.50. Such are the benefits of the markets in Asia. (Too bad the Western food at the grocery stores is not so well priced.)