More Sights To See In Phnom Penh

We decided today we would go and see the Royal Palace & Silver Pagoda and the National Museum. Since the parking over there is not real great we decided to call our friend Haem Seyha and have the BYU/UofU Tuk-Tuk take us over. The place where he let us off is about a block from the ticket office for the palace and pagoda, so as we walked down a street peddler selling water came up. After we told her we did not need water she told us that the palace was closed until 2:00 p.m. so that the king could pray with his monks. So we continued on to the National Museum.

We spent about an hour and a half looking around, there were a lot of artifacts from the Angkor Wat area, including parts of murals that had been stolen and brought back. We were not able to take pictures inside, so we cannot share them with you. We also tried to find a shop that we had been told about over by the museum.

The girls had some items that they still wanted to pick up at the markets, so we made our way back to Central Market. We found most of what they still wanted and they even got some better prices than last week. We asked Brenda and Marla where they wanted to go for lunch and they wanted to go back to Mama's New York Deli, partially because of the Dr. Pepper. With another brief stop at the Russian Market we were ready to head back to our apartment.

This evening we went to a cultural dance performance at the National Museum. We had gone to this program with the other Senior Missionaries a while back and really enjoyed it, so we thought that Marla and Brenda would like it also. The nice thing was the program was different so it was great for us also.

After we got back Elder & Sister Thurston came over for a while. They are such a fun couple and we were all laughing so hard that we hope that we did not disturb others in the building.