While you all in the States were having a Halloween week-end, we were having a three day week-end to celebrate the king father's birthday. It was a gem of a week-end. It started on Friday with a beautiful sunny day and a cool breeze. So far we have had 4 days of what the
Cambodians call cold weather. It has been in the 80's every day with a cool breeze coming straight down from China. This may not seem very exciting to you, and Cambodians mostly dislike it, but for us expats, it's wonderful. It is thesubject that comes up in every conversation in the last few days and people who have been here longer than we have comment that it is something they've never experienced in Phnom Penh. The weather here is almost always between 90 and 95 degrees and humid, so this is a very welcome change. Anyway, it makes me feel like I'm in a different country. It's sort of like the first warm day after a
long cold winter. You wake up, look around and find interest in life again. At the market instead of feeling sweaty and exhausted and ready to escape as quickly as possible, I marvelled at the variety of goods
available and wondered why I never stopped to just browse. I felt motivated to accomplish tasks I'd been putting off since arriving back from the States. I cooked and cooked. We finally went to Wat Phnom (a large park around the stupa that houses some Buddha relics), one of the bigger tourist destinations in PP. Molly also decided to start sleeping through the night this week-end, so I felt like a million bucks this week-end.
This picture is from Gabe's Saturday soccer league. We're very grateful that some parents have organized this league. Gabe really enjoys it and it gives him a chance to spend some time away from the concrete jungle in some fields with trees. Gabe is on the right with a classmate, Sam. His coach is on the left and we hear his entreaties to "Pass de ball! (he's African)" about 100 times a game:)
While you all in the States were having a Halloween week-end, we were having a three day week-end to celebrate the king father's birthday. It was a gem of a week-end. It started on Friday with a beautiful sunny day and a cool breeze. So far we have had 4 days of what the 
Cambodians call cold weather. It has been in the 80's every day with a cool breeze coming straight down from China. This may not seem very exciting to you, and Cambodians mostly dislike it, but for us expats, it's wonderful. It is thesubject that comes up in every conversation in the last few days and people who have been here longer than we have comment that it is something they've never experienced in Phnom Penh. The weather here is almost always between 90 and 95 degrees and humid, so this is a very welcome change. Anyway, it makes me feel like I'm in a different country. It's sort of like the first warm day after a 
long cold winter. You wake up, look around and find interest in life again. At the market instead of feeling sweaty and exhausted and ready to escape as quickly as possible, I marvelled at the variety of goods 
available and wondered why I never stopped to just browse. I felt motivated to accomplish tasks I'd been putting off since arriving back from the States. I cooked and cooked. We finally went to Wat Phnom (a large park around the stupa that houses some Buddha relics), one of the bigger tourist destinations in PP. Molly also decided to start sleeping through the night this week-end, so I felt like a million bucks this week-end.
This picture is from Gabe's Saturday soccer league. We're very grateful that some parents have organized this league. Gabe really enjoys it and it gives him a chance to spend some time away from the concrete jungle in some fields with trees. Gabe is on the right with a classmate, Sam. His coach is on the left and we hear his entreaties to "Pass de ball! (he's African)" about 100 times a game:) 
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So glad you could experience the renewed energy that comes with cooler weather. Sounds as though it was really a refreshing relief. Hope you can have a few more of those times.
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