Catching up on pictures.

Mr. Hong, former Buddhist monk.  There are many former monks in Cambodia. Monks get a discount at universities. 

This appears to be the national dog breed. It fits my description of the perfect canine: fit, trim, a little less than knee high, and I like cinnamon color. They also come in white, black, brindled, etc. According to one of the students at a local school, they occasionally come with sauce – he described that they are food.

So far, Griffin wants to catch any animal he can get his hands around. Mollie wants to take home several puppies, a cat, a piglet and some geckos. Stephanie wants to take home every naked toddler. The answer to all is that we will talk about it when any of them starts walking our two dogs.

Yes, that is a cricket, and yes, he ate it.  It was fried with onion.  He says it has a light, nutty flavor with stout texture and - BLEAAAHHH! 

Siem Reap is strewn with temples in various states of disrepair. There are apparently many more temples to be discovered.  This one did not make the government's list of temples to be restored (yet).  A small private company collects a nominal fee from visitors, who are free to roam in, around, and on top of the structures.  The little locals here quickly became guides for our kids. 

Mollie felt sorry for the piglet on the right with the protruding leg.  It is one of the many animals I would be doomed to care for if I had any less spine.

This house will be moved soon. Tonle Sap means the Sap River. A good section of it looks like a lake on the map. This is one of the “floating villages” on the lake. The rainy season has just started. The lake will more than double in size and rise by more than five meters (side note: the Mekong River joins the Tonle Sap downstream of here. When the rains swell the Mekong, it floods into the Tonle Sap, reversing its direction and filling the lake). When the water reaches the bottom of this house, it will be towed by boat to dry land.