About a week ago Robin, Aubrey and I toured Phnom Penh on the back of motor scooters with a few of the girls from the English class we’d been teaching. It was a holiday in Cambodia, the King’s birthday. Cambodia is a Kingdom! It was one of the many surreal World Race moments…knee-to-knee in traffic driving in front of the brightly lit palace with fireworks decorating the sky over the waterfront.
(Robin on the moto)
(picnic in the park next to the waterfront)
(part of Aubrey’s picnic – ewww – i passed on the frog)
*also available to eat in Cambodia: grasshoppers, spiders, snails, gecko, duck embryo, dog – No thanks!
(palace entrance in the daytime)
The experience reminded me of the celebration we had left the day we departed Vietnam, a day they interestingly consider their Independence Day or Unification Day – the day Saigon fell to the North, marking the unification of their country. We took in the spirit and busyness of the city park celebration from our bus window as we carried our goodbye’s in our hearts.
But with our tickets officially booked – I’ll be home to celebrate our own American independence!!! If all goes as planned, I’ll see my parents [presumably smiling faces] around midnight on June 29th as I step off the tarmac…in Moline, IL. Oh the joy in that day!
“However, I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me-the task of testifying to the gospel of God’s grace.” Acts 20:24
