spa

Today we needed to go to the central market on account of our need for food. 
We got on a tuktuk all by ourselves. Yaya wrote down our address so that we could give it a tuktuk drive when we were done shopping.

Look at us!  On our own in Cambodia. 

Last time we were at the central market (like the mall) we saw this thing for 25cent icecream cones.  Uuuummm.  Ice cream.  Duh.  We hadn't had breakfast, we were hungry, it was perfect.  We had pancakes with teeny little butter cubes, a CamBurger with a little flag, and ice cream.  I've noticed that Cambodians don't fill up their icecream cones.  I don't know why, but they never do.  It's a bit of a let-down, but it was only 1000Riel which, again, is 25cents.

We got a lot of shopping done.  Our goal it to not have to come back next Saturday.   This is a market society (that's not an official term, I made it up), America is a storage society.   Cambodians go to the market for food every day, and store it in their little mini fridges.  Americans buy food for a month and keep it in their monster freezers.  We'll see how long we can avoid the stores.

McKae was feeling near the end of our trip.  Yaya and Sunny invited us to go to the spa with them in the afternoon.  McKae didn't feel up to going, but I went.
It's more like a gym.  A few of the kids from CICFO joined us.   The rain came down in blankets as we drove to the 'spa', but we were not deterred. There was a pool, there was a machine room, there was a steam room, sauna, and two jacuzzis.  Why 2?  One was hot water and one was cold.   We spent a few hours in the pool and I ended up teaching everyone how to float.  I recently got an email from the Red Cross telling me that my teaching certification needs to be renewed.  If the Red Cross could see me now, they wouldn't make me retake the cert tests.  Ah well.
After spending a few hours increasing our body temperature, we went home.  It was still a bit overcast; hot chocolate weather?  Not exactly, but had some anyway.