Harvesting Onions

 
 
 
Here are my kiddos harvesting young onions! We volunteered at one of our farms today. It was a perfect job for them. I loosened the dirt with a shovel, they pulled them out, Blaise slept on my back. We had fun!
What good workers they were. 336 onions AND good attitudes!

More of Angkor Wat

Eric and Gabe climbed up these stairs to the top of one of the temple ruins--and then had to turn around at the top and come down. We were fascinated by the way the ancient trees grew around and into the remains of the buildings.

Several countries have "adopted" a certain temple and are paying for its restoration. Wherever we saw scaffolding and green netting, we knew that work was being done, and there was usually a sign identifying the country that was paying for the work. It's good to know that care is being given so that these structures can "teach" future generations.

Angkor Wat

One of the highlights of our trip to Cambodia was spending a couple of days at the Angkor Wat ruins in Siem Reap, several hours north of Phnom Penh. The more than 100 temples of Angkor were crafted of sandstone between 802 and 1220 AD. Our English-speaking guide was able to explain the history of the Khmer civilization as depicted on the walls of many of the buildings. Buddha's face is carved everywhere. Angkor Wat is the Cambodian site most visited by tourists--and it is easy to understand why. We have never seen anything even similar to it.
We traveled from our hotel by tuk-tuk, but as you can see, there were several other ways to get there.

Testing

After several failed attempts to post, I gave up trying for the last few months. This picture is of the entrance to the Angkor Wat temple ruins in Siem Reap, Cambodia, truly one of the wonders of the world. If this post "works," I'll write and post more pictures of our trip there.