They say it's your birthday.

By Michelle Ferguson -

Within the past two weeks we have celebrated Josh's journey into his late 20's, and accepted with sadness on our part Emily's journey back to her homeland (a magical place we like to call "California"). We have created a moving, high quality, high resolution (as always) video montage to immortalize both of these events.

It captures a little bit of Josh's birthday, including a wild party we threw for him yesterday with all of our closest friends, his fabulous "Birthday in a Box," sent from our favorite Ferguson family back home, as well as the free cake we received at Lucky Market (our favorite Phnom Penh grocery store) celebrating their 16th anniversary.

In addition to this are shots of Emily's "Beef and Prahok Party" (otherwise known as "fish cheese," considered a delicacy in Cambodia, though some people with acute senses of smell would argue against this..)

Please enjoy.

P.S. It was also Emily's birthday on Saturday and Josh and I, along with the girls here (Sopheara, Sarom, and Srey Pin) plan to eat Swensen's ice cream at some point today to celebrate in her honor, as well as in honor of "Women's Day" in Cambodia. We are very good at observing holidays here. And this is no small feat seeing that there are approximately 193 holidays in a Cambodian year that typically last anywhere from 2-7 days at a time. Any excuse to bring out the streamers...

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