Our trip to Mundul Kiri

Sorry there are going to be a lot of pictures of elephants. i truly find elephants amazing.......sit girl

......good girl, now lay down.

So channy and I got the wonderful oppurtunity to go up to a northern province called Mundul Kiri. Its a province in the jungle! The jungle was so amazing and beautiful. Channy school where i taught for awhile was taking their staff for a retreat and since i helped them out for like 6 months the offered for me to come also. so Channy and i got to go for free! it was a awesome gift, i was very thankful.

So this picture was taken at one of the villages in the jungle. the people here were very interesting. they could not speak khemi but they could understand it. there are two main ways these people support their village. one is elephant riding and the other is selling bee honey.

What a beautiful girl! yea yea the girl on the left is pretty cute also......haha just playing.

When we went to Mundul Kiri the roads were very muddy. we not only found ourselves stuck many times but other people as well. this picture is a guy who tried to drive his "moto" through about a foot and a half deep mud. so we had to stop to get him out and when we stopped we also got stuck.

That a girl now roll over....

After are car would get stuck the rest of us had to head out on foot. naturally they trusted the x-football player to hold the baby on the un-easy terrain.....(brushes his shoulder)

This would be my lovely finance and me standing next to one of the huts were the tribal Cambodian people live

This particular hill we were stuck for about 45min. some of the Cambodians would get on the sides and behind the truck and try to rock it. i of course was to smart to stand next to a truck on slick mud on a hill.......

These are some pictures of the waterfalls we went to. they are not as grand as our multnomah :) falls but they are far more beautiful.

While we were at the beach to save money we made our own meals but for one night i took Channy out for a date. this would be a picture of that.

These are some pictures of the beach and waterfall that the family and I went to. the picture right above is the family i will be marrying into soon :) Channy's mom and dad on the left and her two sisters on the right with my lovely niece at the bottom. the only one missing from the family picture is their only son kim sua.

On our four hour trip when we wanted to eat lunch we did not stop at a fast food resturant, rather we pulled over and pulled out the food. as you can see men in america our very much like men in Cambodia....checking the car even while eating their lunch.

Apartment pics 3

The top picture is of course my room. the next picture is the bathroom. The third picture you notice the toilet is missing its tank. the tank is actually the red barrel next to the toilet. the fourth picture is my washing machine (wash clothes the old school way) the last picture is my dryer (it's so hot in Cambodia that don't need a dryer).

Apartment pics 1

The top picture is my living room. the next 3 are my kitchen area. the last one is outside how the apartments look.

Apartment pics

Next we have some lovely pictures of my new apartment. I really like it's location 20min outside the busy city. The apartment that is mine is the house that is directly ahead. I have 2 doors to lock for safety. I have a fairly nice view of the surrounding area. The picture of the big tank is my water tank. the city has not yet brought running water out here so i have a gravity fed system that works okay. the bottom picture is the stinky trash field i have directly behind my house. (Cambodians just kinda throw their trash where they please)

Pizza Dinner after moving

This is Channy and my favorite picture of us. the next picture has Channy's brother Kim Sua and 1 of Channy's sisters Channa. After helping me to move all my stuff i took all the bible students out for some pizza. we had a wonderful time laughing and having fun.

Moving pics 3

so while the guys were helping to move out of the house the girls were cleaning the trail behind us. we all finished at the same time. the total moving process only took a couple hours.

Moving pics 2

The couch was most difficult to move because we had to take it out from the 2nd story of my apartment. while we were lowering the couch the rope got caught on sam-on's leg and he got very scared at the thought of going down with the couch. the next picture you can kind of see him trying to get away from the rope.

Moving Pics

There were a few items that were rather difficult to get out of my house and one of them would be my bed. We had to take it out of the upstairs loft window. I was truly blessed in this moving process as i had much help.

Brithday pics

These are a couple pics of my birthday Channy really made the day special
she bought a cake and surprised me with it.