Test your vocabulary and help end world hunger all at the same time. Saw this on BBC News. It’s an online game testing your vocabulary knowledge. For each word you get right, ten grains of rice are donated to the United Nations World Food Program (WFP). The advertisers on the site are the companies that pay for the donations. It’s highly addictive, and slightly educational. Just today I learned that mahout is a person that drives an elephant. When I go to Cambodia tomorrow, I want to meet a mahout that will take me around Angkor Wat (see how I can even use it in a sentence).
Woke to a hot and sunny day. I had to go to the travel clinic to get my anti-malarial medicine and my last hep-a & hep-b vaccination. After that I met the parental units at the Botanic Gardens. Who knew that we could kill 5.5 hours walking around. We really don’t like plants and flowers that much. My guess is that the quiet, the absence of crowds, and the FANTASTIC weather are the reason we spent soooo long there.
This morning I woke to yet another rainy day. The wet season is here, and for the last 3 mornings, it has been raining. Heavy rain. Stay inside rain. So we do. My parents and I sit and be lazy. Watching BBC or CNN news. Reading. Going online. Dabbling with work. Today was no different. Except, as the sun started to break up the clouds, I brought up our trip to Cambodia. We talked, looked at websites, looked at the guidebooks. And then we finally did it. We picked a time frame, a hotel and airline flights. And now it is BOOKED. Sunday morning, waaaaay to early to even think about, we fly off to Siem Reap. I absolutely cannot wait. After lunch, we were off to a walking tour of Little India. With tomorrow being Deepavali (Hindu festival of lights) we thought it would be fun to see the festive atmosphere today. The guide book said the tour was about 1.5 hours. We took 3-4 hours. While it was hot and exhausting, it was a lot of fun as well. We then came home and rested for a bit, before heading off to dinner. Last week I found a beautiful Thai restaurant in the Chijmes. It’s not cheap, but OMG is the food incredible. Since the rain was long cleared away, we sat outside amongst the candle lit tables. Great atmosphere to go along with the great food. Oh and did I mention how delectable the food is? Just checking.