Halloween

Today many people in the States will be celebrating Halloween. We don't have anything like that here. Yesterday I told you about the holidays we are celebrating.

Today is also my dad's birthday. He turns 65. I have the privilege of being with him on his birthday. He is arriving for the extended weekend and has the honor of being our first visitor. We are packing a lot in to a few days. The journey starts in Siem Reap, home to Angkor Wat temples. Then we will take a taxi to our home town of Phnom Penh to see some of the water festival activities. Sunday, he and I will then head to Bangkok - his favorite place in the world to shop.

November 3 I will join my colleagues in Thailand for budget meetings, etc and will return to Cambodia a couple of weeks later.

It will be a busy few weeks! I am so glad my dad is coming. Prior to marriage he was my travel buddy and we haven't traveled together much in recent years. He also comes bearing gifts from home, things I forgot or didn't think to pack that my family has generously collected to send with their delegate to our part of the world. It will be like Christmas in October! I think my holidays are confused - what am I celebrating? Halloween? New Year's? Christmas? Don't matter. I am celebrating!