Myanmar Army
 
 
 
Tuesday- I took a free day and went on a tour to the Demilitarized Zone on the North and South Korea Border. It was a small group with only 5 of us...one of the gentlemen was a PDG from New Zealand...When you are at the DMZ you hear bombs going off, it is a little disconcerting and it is both sides testings the arsenal...they don't let you take photos of the actual DMZ...had dinner Tuesday night with president elect Judy and current president wendell from the cupertino club.
 
Wednesday was closing ceremony and RI president Ravi gave a truly moving and inspirational farewell speech, I would encourage you to go to the RI web site and see if they posted it yet...the entertainment was Sai - Gangam style which was fun, his grandfather and father are Rotarians.
 
I also attended a breakout session regarding RAGE - this is a newly sanctioned group for the preservation of endangered species.  They are out of Kenya and they will be putting together Rotary African Safaris and they have also partnered with Jane Goodall and her group roots and shoots.  For any of you who are into animals this is something you should look into.
 
Our flight out of Korea was 12:30am Thursday morning, we flew to Singapore, then onto Siem Reap.  (Georgie arrived at Siem Reap on Wednesday)  We got through customs with no issues and a car was waiting for us...our hotel is lovely and Georgie met us for lunch which we had with Kerry the Director of feeding dreams....Mary(president elect santa cruz sunrise) and Braxton are going over in the morning and will help out at the school...Joe, Georgie and I are going over at 2pm where some Buddhist Nuns will be blessing the new vocational school...
 
It is into the high 90's low 100's with the humidity at about 85% dropping to the high 80's at night and about 66% humidity...the pool water is great, the beer is cold (50 cents a can and 1.00 for a 14oz draft and the beer is very good) will follow up with photos.
 
 
 
Arriving in Cambodia - we felt the heat immediately as we disembarked from the plane, the airport is small and all aircraft have stairs to the runway and you walk to the customs area...no jetways here.  the tiny airport is much improved from 2 years ago, and getting through customs was much easier.  
 
We were met by our driver and started out to our hotel, the smell and sounds were what we had remembered, so were the potholes in the road...the aircon took a bit to get going but once it did we were comfortable for the 20 minute drive to our hotel.
 
 
Mary Alsip president elect Santa Cruz sunrise and her son Braxton.
 
 
Pub Street
 
 
 
Kuy from the Stockton club. His family fled to the US during the Khmer genocide he came and brought his family back to his country to visit relatives first trip for his four kids. I first met him at PETS.
 
 
We were at Feeding Dreams for about 4 hours...there is no aircon there so we were in the heat all that time, plus during the blessing we were in a seated position that was rather uncomfortable for about 1/2 and hour, which doesn't seem like a lot but it got to be excruitatingly painful after awhile
 
Feeding Dreams
 
 
 
We had dinner at a restaurant that was recommended by one of the tuk tuk drivers, which we believe was owned by a relative or friend, suffice it to say we will pick our own restaurants from now on...
 
 
Saturday everyone in the group except me ventured out to the outter temples of angkor wat - I had looked at the weather reports and saw it was going to be very hot, and I had seen the same temples last time...I decided to stick around the hotel and pool it for the day - I also had to write a speech for the dedication...Georgie and Joe returned looking hot, hot, hot, and joined me at the pool, where we stayed for another 2 hours drinking beer, wine ,and eating pizza and french fries (do not tell joe's wife about the pizza and french fries!)