The zoo is a pretty close to us and really cheap. So when ever the children do not have school for some reason we like to take them.

It seems that every time we have went lately there has been a problem with my pictures. Once our computer crashed and once I erased them thinking they where already down loaded on the computer but they where not.

So this time I was cautious and got some published before any thing happened to them. Now I have to copy them to a disk.

Anyway some time we just run through the zoo to get back for lunch but the children love getting out. I personally love seeing the birds because they are animals I have never seen before. Lots of Cambodia’s wildlife is going extinct and are endangered.

The beautiful chicken picture posted is called the Angkor Wat chicken because it is carved on some of the walls of the temples from a thousand years ago.

Really I am surprised it is still a live to day. Like so many other beautiful birds that have gone extincted it to is endangered. You would think God made these animals hardest for us to get too, that bird would be most abundant in the world. But maybe since they are harder for us to kill that we have may it our mission to do so. I do not know. I do how ever realize the want to see it all the time. I would love to have them running around the property here so I could see the every day. I love fish tanks also I can sit there for hours just watching them. Sometimes for their color and some times because they swim. The other world with in this earth fascinate me.

So each time I go to this zoo I try and get a better picture of the chicken. One day it might be the last one I see.

I had the thought while we where at the zoo with the large amount of children we have that we have brought them out of their zoo to see another, but that is not true. They are so well behaved and could not at all be considered animals. Not like other groups we have met.

I try and get pictures of each child so all the sponsors can see their child but it is hard. Some of our children just stand out. I take lots of pictures but some are just not fun to look at, the sun might be in their face and they are squinting are they turn there head as the camera snaps or they are just shy. I have to push myself and spend the time getting picture of all the children and with this many it seems to be hard to do. We almost need a person to work here just taking pictures.

We just had a Barbecue put on by Amy. She bought clams, and shrimp, a beef and other good stuff. We had all of Reams family come as well. So there was about 50 of us I guess. It was a lot of fun we played all night in the yard.

We are repairing to have the teachers over for a lunch in the future so we will see how that goes.

We are also doing a Friday night bible study with the older children. I don’t remember if I have mentioned it before. We leave it open for who ever is interested can come.

Last Friday we showed them the book we bought Showing picture and time lines of the artifacts of the bible. This kind of book or teaching material is very good for us because it gives the children a visual of what we are talking about in the bible. It also brings some facts and tangible truths to them to help them tell others and strengthen their own beliefs.