Beach Day and Moving to Next Province

March 25:

We boarded the bus headed for the beach @ 7:30am and arrived around 10am in Ta Hien near Cambodia on the South China Sea. We spent 1.5 hours swimming and playing on the beach followed by lunch overlooking the water. Then we took showers and headed back to Rach Gia because we were moving on the Dong Thap on a bus @ 4pm.

While we were at the beach the person in charge of the distribution team gold me what a great job Zach was doing, what a hard worke he is, and how well behaved he is. I'm so proud of how well he is doing on this trip.

I had terrible stomach pains on the way back from the beqach and though I might be coming down with the dreaded traveler's diarrhea. It would have been terrible timing and made the bus ride to Dong Thap miserable. We only had 15 minutes after returning to the hotel to check out before leaving for Dong Thap. I quickly took some Active Manuka Honey (which I have recently discovered as a cure for acide reflux and all kinds of GI problems) and prayed it would work. Within 15 minutes the pain was gone! And some people think God doesn't perform miracles any more!

We were warned that the trip to Dong Thap would be very bumpy as part of it would be on a 1 lane dirt road. So Zach and I took some dramamine and that combined with being exhauseted from the time change and working in excessively hot and humid conditions had us sleeping much of the bus ride. We had to disembark and take 2 ferries as part of the trip. It took about 4.5 hours to get there and by the time we ate dinner and checked it, it was almost 11pm.