Ok, more catch-up. We got to Phnom Penh, the capital city, on the 9th of August. We met up with Brittany’s 2nd cousin Nikki, her husband John, and their 3 kids who are living in Phnom Penh and had dinner at their house that evening. On the 10th we headed just out of town to the Killing Fields site. This is the location where, under the rule of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, thousands of Cambodians were killed and buried in mass graves. There are some 140+ mass graves of which 84 have been dug up. The skulls, bones, and cloths of those un-earthed have been stacked in a large memorial. It was amazing to see and hear the brutality that occurred there against the Cambodian people by their own leaders. As we walked around
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