So how am I getting to work today?

This is what I saw when I left my driveway to go to work. The road has only one exit street with only this direction to go. There is a pond/swamp to the right of the cows.

DON'T LOOK AT THE NEXT PHOTO IF YOU ARE A BIT SQUEAMISH!
Here is your typical Cambodian hot dog stand. Zoom in and look to the right of the BBQ. You will see what I mean. (Also seen on the way to work.)

Eating dog meat seems to be a new phenomenon here. The dog restaurants pay $40 for a dog, then sell it for $20-40 a kilo. They say it is so expensive because it takes 17 hours to prepare. The dogs of expats are especially well liked as they have been fed a good diet. When an expat loses a dog here, they quickly go to all the known dog restaurants here and see if they can buy their dog back before it gets eaten. Hopefully this practice ends very quickly.

Still here

We have to apologize for not posting in a very long time. We have had to spend some time in Thailand and we have had to move house as our lease was up. We moved into a new place that looked very nice but once in we found a myriad of issues such as plumbing, drainage and electrical. problems. We needed to build some new concrete retainers as well. All this work we had to arrange and pay for ourselves. It is very hard to do as a non Cambodian as they know they can charge you an exorbitant amount for their work. The minute you turn your back they try go to sleep or try to put a tile in upside down or back to front.

A plumber chipping away at our cement walls.

We are a bit further out in the countryside now, but still quite close to town. Our neighbors have been very welcoming. Their children are always here and while nice, they find everything about us fascinating and after trying to follow us into the bathroom a few times, they have atleast learned to give us some space when in that room.

The neighbors threw a feast for us last night. As it was an extra special occasion for them, they bought a monitor lizard and cooked that up to make us a soup.

It was quite nice. A little chewy, but we enjoyed it and appreciated the effort they went to to make a special night for us. We brought some brownie along for dessert and these were all eaten within two minutes.

All up it was a fun night under the stars. The only issue was the mosquitoes.