CAMBODIA

We arrived in Cambodia Saturday evening June 14, 2014 around 10:00 pm. With every piece of our checked in luggage arriving with us. Dewey's (someone who traveled with us) 2 bags he checked did not arrive with him due to a very close connecting  flight he had in the States. But the 2 bags arrived the next day to the Okay guest house were we stayed the first 2 nights after arriving in Cambodia.

                                                  Phnom Penh Cambodia International Airport.
                                     (this picture was taken on a later date, as we flew in after dark.)

After we arrived and got our Visa's and picked up our luggage. We piled 10 suitcases plus all our backpacks and carry on bags into 4 tuk-tuks and we took a ride across the city to the Okay Guest house. The kids were hyper when we arrived and were jumping from bed to bed. the time difference was not helping with going right to sleep as we switched 13 hours ahead of our home country time.

The children LOVED their very first tuk-tuk ride.
They both had big grins on their faces the whole time.






Sunday was spend walking around the river front and napping. Monday we packed everything back into 4 tuk-tuks and headed across town gain to a house that we rented for 2 months. Another foreign family lives in, but they are back in North America for the 2 months. So we feel very blessed  to have something like this to live in for now.

                                                                

Some of  the different foods we've had since we are here. The dish on the left is yummy. You take one lettuce leaf, piece of chicken, tomato and cucumber and dip it in a sauce of pepper salt and lime juice.
Right picture is of a broth with rice, chicken, and lots of other unidentified things. Including  a lump of dried blood.
                                                                                                                         

         A busy intersection we watched for a while, while sipping yummy iced coffee in a air conditioned cafe.

Some low class housing in the city we drove by a few times. A lot of homes have a small business out front. they may sell hot food, fruit, meat, or motorbike parts,  

                                         Yes we had to go in and see what a Cambodian Superstore was all about.  Its mainly imported foods from different country's that Cambodia does not produce. This is where you can buy 2 liters of cow milk for $4.30.

Our family on the tuk-tuk. 

 

J could not wait to make new friends. She has figured out ways to communicate through pointing and a few words she does know already. These are some friends she meet at church on Sunday. the girl closes to her is a orphan child. The other 3 have Christian parents .

We have left Canada Thursday morning Boarded the plane that took us to Chicago where we meet up with 2 others, so we can all travel together. We arrived in Doha, Qatar. around 6:00 GMT. It was a 13hr and 45 minute flight that went by very fast. (It helps to be sleep deprived before you flight a long flight.)  ;) We board our Flight to Phenom Phen Cambodia at 8:00 in the morning. I do believe its a 12 hour flight.  Thank you to all who have been praying for us.  Next update will be from Cambodia Lord willing.

Ready to fly with all our belongings.