We are in Cambodia.

I know, it's crazy.

The last few months have gone by so fast.  I was planning on posting all about our summer and Anna's birthday, and some birth photos from a year ago, but I ran out of time.  Maybe later.  Anyway, so we are in Cambodia now.  We will be here for three months at least.  If everything goes ok (if I don't go crazy here) we will probably stay for another six months.

We are in the capitol, Phnom Penh.  We live in a really fancy apartment with TWO bedrooms!!!  Yay.  If you don't live in New York City you may not realize what a big deal this is.  And we have a lady who cleans our apartment three days a week.  She also does the laundry.  Score!

Anyway, we are still getting settled in and trying to overcome jet lag.  It has been rough.  Night is day and day is night.  I hope we can get through it.

I still haven't decided whether or not I like it here.  My thinking is a little out of wack from sleep deprivation.  Maybe after we're all sleeping better and I get a chance to learn my way around I'll decide.  But we have had some good food and been to a few cool places.  And today we went to church and had a great time learning the gospel and making new friends.  We are attending the international branch, which is English speaking.

So here are the first batch of pictures:

First day, first meal, accompanied by a tall glass of fresh watermelon juice.  I've been looking forward to this.

Our first ride in a tuk-tuk, our primary mode of transportation.

Tuk-tuks and their drivers waiting for passengers.  Tuk-tuks are like horse-drawn carriages, but they are pulled by a motorbike instead of a horse.

Our street.  Our apartment building is the tall white one on the right.

A fun place we found for Anna to hang out.  It is a play school for babies and toddlers.  We have to pay but it's worth the money because she loves it. 

 She's signed up for a class there three days a week.  This has been a good place for us to make friends with other English speaking foreigners who have kids her age. 

Yesterday we took Anna to her first swimming lesson. John's friend from work takes his kids to a swimming class where they are taught by members of Cambodia's olympic swim team! Anna had so much fun we signed her up for a 14-week term.

Ok, I hope to have more pictures and updates soon.