The above three pictures are of sisters in the Siem Reap Branch from the some the families that Don visited during the day. When he took the picture of the lady with the gray straw hat in the first picture and told her how pretty she looks, the lady in the brown shirt ran into her house and returned with a hat asking if he would take her picture, too!
At one of the markets Don perused in the afternoon, he snapped this shot. Makes me wonder if maybe I should start wearing hats. :)Tuesday, April, 2011
Ben, Brittan, and I went to the silk factory where I tried to find blue silk scarves for my sisters. The only one close to what I had in mind was $139. So, I found some beautiful blue silk fabric on the bolt and bought three meters. It's one meter wide, so I will cut it when I get home and make 1/2 meter by 1 1/2 meter scarves for all four of us. Also found some beautiful placemats for JoAnn.
Found a great Mexican place for lunch, did a bit of shopping at a local market. It's Lincoln's (Brittan's nephew's) birthday, so Ben and Brittan found t-shirts for three nephews. After shopping, Ben asked our tuk-tuk drive his recommendation for a place for a massage. He used to work at a place that he took us to, and all three of us were in the same room and had a one-hour massage for $5 apiece. . . first massage every for Ben. So nice.
Next stop was the Cambodian Cultural Center where we watched two performances. One was of a traditional Cambodian wedding, with a teen-aged boy from Canada acting as the groom. Interesting details: parents of the bride ate small bananas and found rings inside them, parents wiped loose face powder down each side of the other one's faces. . . fancy, ornate costurnmes. Live music (string instruments that provided a whiney music reminiscent of the Cambodian music video music that we heard so many times on the bus rides).
Met Don back our guest house at 6. He had a good day--went tot eh land mines museum and then had Carolos take him to several members' homes. . . very humble homes. . . he ended up giving away all of the moon lights he had purchased at the factory we visited (5 left after the 3 he had given to Seiha earlier). One gifted moonlight was to a family he met on the property that's being cleared for the new church building here. President Loy gave them permission to stay on the property and several of the members helped put together a crude shelter for them.
When we were in Carolos's tuk-tuk heading to the Loy's last night, Carlos pointed out the one lone light in the darkness--the moonlight--as we passed by the property.
Ben, Brittan, and I went to the silk factory where I tried to find blue silk scarves for my sisters. The only one close to what I had in mind was $139. So, I found some beautiful blue silk fabric on the bolt and bought three meters. It's one meter wide, so I will cut it when I get home and make 1/2 meter by 1 1/2 meter scarves for all four of us. Also found some beautiful placemats for JoAnn.
Found a great Mexican place for lunch, did a bit of shopping at a local market. It's Lincoln's (Brittan's nephew's) birthday, so Ben and Brittan found t-shirts for three nephews. After shopping, Ben asked our tuk-tuk drive his recommendation for a place for a massage. He used to work at a place that he took us to, and all three of us were in the same room and had a one-hour massage for $5 apiece. . . first massage every for Ben. So nice.
Next stop was the Cambodian Cultural Center where we watched two performances. One was of a traditional Cambodian wedding, with a teen-aged boy from Canada acting as the groom. Interesting details: parents of the bride ate small bananas and found rings inside them, parents wiped loose face powder down each side of the other one's faces. . . fancy, ornate costurnmes. Live music (string instruments that provided a whiney music reminiscent of the Cambodian music video music that we heard so many times on the bus rides).
Met Don back our guest house at 6. He had a good day--went tot eh land mines museum and then had Carolos take him to several members' homes. . . very humble homes. . . he ended up giving away all of the moon lights he had purchased at the factory we visited (5 left after the 3 he had given to Seiha earlier). One gifted moonlight was to a family he met on the property that's being cleared for the new church building here. President Loy gave them permission to stay on the property and several of the members helped put together a crude shelter for them.
When we were in Carolos's tuk-tuk heading to the Loy's last night, Carlos pointed out the one lone light in the darkness--the moonlight--as we passed by the property.
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