Our Picnic Day Out.....! We 15th April, 09

We had a picnic day out, for Khmer New Year and Julie's birthday (yes the birthday has been going on for a few weeks now!!). It was quite amusing.

We (a mini van with 20 people in it) drove for about 3.5 hours into the hills, to spend 2.5 hours at a picnic ground with a ""waterfall"., (a rapidly running stream) and the drove the 3.5 hours back. And to top it all off, it started to pour rain just before we got there. So we thought we were going to have to picnic in the car!!!. Praise God the sun came back out again, and although it was slippery clay underfoot, we thoroughly enjoyed our time there. I ended up clothes and all in the rapids, keeping an eye on our little girls. My foot found a large pot hole, so any thoughts of keeping upright and relatively dry were quickly abandoned. It was so refreshing to be in the water though. I loved it, and the girls thought it was great also.

WE ate a Khmer style picnic (rice and fried chicken) FOR LUINCH, in a grass hut shelter like this one below. This is not us, just an example of the shelter that we used. For confidentiality reasons I can't print pictures of our girls.

The staff had a birthday cake especially made for Julie, which we all enjoyed for desert. Along with Samet's famous custard pumpkin, and some mangoes and lyches.
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Don't you just love this look??
On the way up the mountain, the staff bought these "crowns"for us both to wear. There were a lot for sale along the road, as it is part of the custom for New Year celebrations. (Julie was posing for a birthday photo and didn't know what I was doing behind her!)

The track heading towards the ""waterfall"".



The water really was lovely once I got in........

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........... clothes and all.

A great day was had by all. Needless to say it was also a LOOONG day, and everyone was in bed very early that night.

Bye for now, LANE