Roni was up early this morning getting some washing done (we needed it!) and making a packed lunch for our planned adventures.
We went to church at ICF with the Sussex whanau. It was cool to share this with them and meet some of the peeps there. They have a coffee & cake thing on the shady roof afterwards and we enjoyed it!
Then we were headed to Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (infamous Khmer Rouge prison) just around the corner. A girl at church told us it was closed until 2pm so we resigned ourselves to a long wait and bought a drink at The Bodhi Tree (flasher than our usual!) cafe close by to have with our lunch.
Walked past the prison after that and saw people going in and checked. It WAS open! A very sobering, moving and mind-blowing experience. The tiny cells, interrogation rooms, photos of the victims fill room after room and pictures and implements of their imprisonment & torture are still there.
It is meant as a memorial and also as a 'mark in the sand' to prevent these kinds of atrocities happening ever again. Bray's sobering thought was that these same kinds of things are happening in other places today and we still can't and don't stop them...
We walked to the first shopping centre in PP after that to use an ATM - it was a weird place. Half full of closed/empty shops with a couple still open...until you get up a couple of floors and there were bumper cars (with darkness, neons and music like a disco), pool rooms, ten pin bowling and family golf. Also a basketball arcade game that Bray couldn't resist! There was an aquatic centre on the ground floor too...odd.
Sussex whanau picked us up on the way home - fortunate as the skies opened! Lightning, thunder and torrential rain from then on.
Dinner time, chats, kids to bed, clean up then chats and cuppa with Phil & Becky until relatively late again. They are awesome!
