Cambodia Adventure Continues

One thing that Brenda and Marla told us that they would like to do with us is go on our  morning walk, so we got them up at 5:30.  Seeing the sights and sound of Cambodia in person has been a great addition to their experience.

This morning we went to the mission office, which was quite chaotic because it is transfer week. We will take them back there again next week when things are quieter. We also stopped at our office to send a few urgent emails (some things just won't wait for vacation to be done). We returned to our apartment, planning to connect to an internet meeting, but when we couldn't make the necessary connections we left the girls getting the last things packed for our trip to Siem Reap and we ran back to the office. It turned out great, we connected with most of the senior Self-Reliance couples in Asia.

We finally got on the road about noon to head North to the provinces. Driving through town we saw monkeys crossing the wires (something we had not seen in the city before). We had lunch of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches as we drove. The trip took us about five hours, including a short rest stop. We were surprised yesterday that we didn't have any rain, but today we had gentle showers for much of our drive.

We arrived at our hotel and arranged for a driver to take us to the night market for dinner and shopping. Dinner at Red Piano was a good choice, the rain stopped while we ate, so our walk around the night market proved to very pleasant. We found two YSA friends who work at one of the shops. The girls had a lot of fun negotiating bargains for their purchases. They found almost everything they set out to buy. They told us to tell them they are done with the markets and don't need to buy anything else. We even made a few purchases and felt we came out okay!

At the end of the day we were all tired and ready for some rest. We are looking forward to another day of exploring sites around Angkor Wat tomorrow.