A Cambodian Christmas

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Just want to send some love out there and say Merry Christmas to all you lovely folks. I hope your Christmases were as jolly as it gets and that you are all spending this day after Christmas napping and digesting that garagantuan meal everyone knows you ate… I was not so pleased to miss out on that meal… But we did have ourselves a great Cambodian Christmas – with a riverboat ride and circus show on Christmas Eve followed by poolside gin&tonics and a lovely, fancy dinner on Christmas day. And so you all know we have been thinking of you and missing you lots, we also had ourselves a little holiday photo shoot while we were visiting the temples at Angkor a few days ago. (They may be the most amazing manifestation of human ingenuity and strength I have ever seen but there’ll be much more on that later. I really just want to focus on Jesus’ birthday now.) And there’s not too much more to say except that we love you. We had a chance to speak to (and see) our families during their Christmas celebrations on Skype today and that was really nice. Other than being stunned yet again that modern technology affords us that opportunity, I have also been thinking about the opportunity presented to a person when they are far from those they love; The opportunity to know that we are lucky enough to have all these beautiful people that miss us on Christmas day, people that miss our presence on that day as much as we miss theirs. And that’s something I have thought about a lot on this trip. How it has made me realize that I am loved and missed so much by so many people that I love and miss right back. That people think of me when I am gone and thinking of them. And that is a really fabulous feeling. Especially at Christmastime.

So thanks for all that love, peeps. And if you’re feeling a little bit unloved, maybe it’s time for a vacation?!?!

Merry Christmas everyone…