Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Tuesday! a good day, the last full day in BB

We are back in our hotel room for the last night. My how time flies when you're having fun. Mary is cutting out the last of some crafts for Jeevits house so I guess I'll take my turn doing the reporting. Had a little lighter schedule today, had breakfast in the room and didn't have to be anywhere until 8:45. We helped with King's Kids again at 9:00, finished there around 10:30 then biked out to Pastor Timothy's village for the rest of the morning. The outreach team from Kona is building a water catchment container by his church but I still had not heard the rest of his story that he started telling last week when we were there. It is a story of being in the military under 2 different dictators, escaping the last one and then later being caught and put in prison and then finally being released. It is a long story so I won't go into all of that. We had prayer with him and said some encouraging words and then headed back to base to finish some business we had there and then to lunch with Sat, one of the staff our Bridge Church supports.

We ate lunch at a Korean cafe in the upstairs and it actually had soft comfortable chairs to sit in while we dined. Rina came after lunch to hang out for a while and then we biked back to the hotel to get ready for an evening out with Laura from Jeevits house and her 2 charges, Ruen and Rain. We went by Tuk Tuk accross the river to a barbecue place that was quite unique. The table has a big hole cut out of the middle and they put a container of hot coals in the hole and cover it with a cone shaped grille that has a trough around the outside where they pour water in. The water boils so you can cook the vegetables and prepare the noodles while the cone has a chunk of lard in the center which melts and runs down the cone. You place the meat on the slanted side and it cooks in the dripping fat. Like I said, it was unique. It was a fun time and I don't think I ever saw two little boys put away that much food, we asked Ruen if he had a hollow leg, of course he did not understand that statement!  A group of kids from YWAM also showed up to eat there as well.

When we got back to the hotel we both felt we had eaten too much for the day so a swim in the pool was perfect before we retired for the night! Since it was only our 3rd time since being here so we thought we should take advantage of that while we could. That was a refreshing end to the day. Tomorrow will be a day of saying goodbyes and packing. We'll probably leave BB at 5:30 or 6:00 PM and take a taxi to Siem Reap where we will leave Cambodia

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