Well, today was, shall we say 'stretching' for me. We have spent the entire day (11 hours) on a bus traveling to the orphan home we are going to be working and filming in. We only stopped a few times along the way to use the squatty potty and get gas. The bus was nice and had A/C but Mark andI Shari g a seat got to more than I could handle at about hour 6. He as a great sport even sitting on the chair arm for a while. Ouch!!
Watching the Cambodian country side was fascinating. All of the houses, big and beautiful as well as the shanty wood p,and shacks, are all built on stilts. I discovered that that is partially to do with the rainy season and the water flooding and partially to have an outdoor covered place to cook... Under the house of course! The ancient temples and natural wild life were also breathtaking.
Along the way we did stop at one roadside market that specializes in tranchula spiders... Fried AND live! You could pay $1 to eat one or let one crawl all over you... PASS!!! No thank you! I did getaway group of kids to meet one very sweet little girl named Holly. It was like she had assigned her to me! She was so sweet. She asked in her broken but good English, 'where you from?' I said the US a she said "where? California? It was so funny. I didn't buy her bananas but I did giver her $1 and get her picture. After 11 grueling hours we finally made it to Chuuk. It was dark and we had dinner and went straight to bed. Tomorrow we get to meet the kids...
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