Aisle 12.
Josh and I are coming up on our two month anniversary, both of getting married and of moving to Cambodia. We have been out with teams fairly consistently within this time frame and are now settling into a week and a half "break" before the next team comes. This time will involve normal office hours, evenings to ourselves, sending out wedding thank-you's, and exciting date nights to places like The Pizza Company (perhaps I love it too much. As if this would be possible). Our first official "break" activity occurred yesterday after church and lunch. We had dreamed of this activity prior to our last team, spoken of it often, and anticipated the day it would actually happen.
We drove into town, made our way into a parking garage, and excitedly entered the vast air conditioned haven known as "Lucky Mart." It is the Phnom Penh equivalent of a Safeway or Albertsons, and since Josh and I often sit and dream aloud of walking the aisles of Target (I will admit here our unhealthy addiction to it. no shame.), we have found that Lucky Mart is the closest thing to this in Phnom Penh.
We made our way down every aisle, regardless of what it contained. We bought the staples like bread and Skittles, batteries and chocolate chip ice cream. It's amazing how the seemingly small things of life can bring a great deal of comfort when living over here. People had told me to anticipate this and now I am seeing it firsthand when I genuinely look forward to things like folding laundry, organizing our room, and splurging for an iced coffee with sweetened condensed milk (the condensed part means it's healthy...don't try to tell me otherwise).
We drove into town, made our way into a parking garage, and excitedly entered the vast air conditioned haven known as "Lucky Mart." It is the Phnom Penh equivalent of a Safeway or Albertsons, and since Josh and I often sit and dream aloud of walking the aisles of Target (I will admit here our unhealthy addiction to it. no shame.), we have found that Lucky Mart is the closest thing to this in Phnom Penh.
We made our way down every aisle, regardless of what it contained. We bought the staples like bread and Skittles, batteries and chocolate chip ice cream. It's amazing how the seemingly small things of life can bring a great deal of comfort when living over here. People had told me to anticipate this and now I am seeing it firsthand when I genuinely look forward to things like folding laundry, organizing our room, and splurging for an iced coffee with sweetened condensed milk (the condensed part means it's healthy...don't try to tell me otherwise).
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