Showing Brenda and Marla The City

Since we did not make it back from the airport and to bed until 2:00 a.m. there was no way that we could be up and to Steung Mean Chey by 8:00 a.m. Besides Brenda and Marla wanted to go to the International Branch where they would understand what was happening. There were about fifty there today which is down a little. With it being summer several of the families have taken a vacation back to the U.S.  Still they had a real good Sacrament Meeting and Sunday School. The Sunday School teacher is a Nigerian and he teaches with a lot of enthusiasm.

After church and lunch we all just sat back and took it easy for a little while. Marla has been on a quest today to keep Brenda awake since she did not sleep last night because she slept too much on the plane. We took them up to the roof of the building where we live to give them a birds eye view of the city. Phnom Penh is an interesting city where they do not have restrictive building codes about where to build, so you will have a brand new building right in the middle of some really old and almost falling down buildings. We also took them down to the swimming pool area where the girls had to mimic the Apsara Dancers,  and they also found the large wooden guards by the elevator interesting to pose with.

This evening we took them on a ride around Phnom Penh to show them the sights and the traffic. It is amazing how slow traffic is and how patient you have to be driving through this city. The moto and tuk-tuk drivers think that they should not have to wait for anything, so they weave in and out to get ahead of the cars, SUVs and trucks. We drove along the river road and back down Norodom to our apartment. Without traffic that would take less than twenty minutes, with the crazy traffic tonight it took an hour and a half.

We finished off the day with sticky rice and mango, our first attempt at a very Khmer treat.