Wednesday Afternoon - Singapore Airport

We just arrived and found our departing gate at Singapore Airport. We're letting the kids do a little shopping and catching up on the web.

Last night in Phnom Penh, we had a nice final dinner together at a Thai restaurant. The fruit smoothies were fantastic! Two men played traditional music on regional instruments. One looked similar to a hammered dulcimer and seemed to function the same. The other was like a four-stringed guitar that you played as it laid down.

I talked for awhile with our host - Bill Labazoo about learning the Khmer language and few things about the ministry there.

The guest houses we stayed at (kind of like a small hotel) were very nice by comparison to our housing the last two weeks. Mike and I roomed together and watched CNBC on cable television. We actually had a nightstand to set things on.

Before we went to the restaurant, we went to the Genocide museum. Quite sobering. Thousands of pictures that the Khmer Rouge took of people before they killed them. There were 12-15 paintings depicting the methods of torture used by on those killed by Pol Pot. Very gruesome stuff.

Upon entering there were signs telling you not to laugh or smile during your tour, out of respect for those who were murdered by the Khmer Rouge. Under one set of steps was graffiti in many languages mourning what occurred there. (The museum is actually a concentration camp that was used by the Khmer Rouge - it had previously been a school). Some of the graffitti was sad, other notes were very angry, filled with profanities aimed at those who committed the atrocities.

It is good to be back in a western-style atmosphere, however there were many that were sad to leave. Three of the Khmer friends we had met came to the airport to wish us good bye.

See you all in a few days. (Greensleeves or "What Child Is This" is playing over the speaker system here - weird!)