Playgroups and karaoke

Friday morning James and I headed down the road to a house for playgroup. We found this playgroup online and were invited to attend. It is full of expats mainly from the UK and USA. We were happy to discover a lady with her 4yr old son who are not only from Australia, not only from Perth, but from Rockingham! Turns out we know a couple of people in common as well. James loved playing with all the kids and I loved meeting the lovely women who were so welcoming and helpful. I got some good advice about where to shop for different things, what to cook and also some suggestions of churches.

James decided to sleep like this part way through the night...

Saturday we took up some of this advice and headed to the Russian markets to buy some fruit. It was hot, stuffy, full of smells of cooking food but also full of beautiful handicrafts. I surprised myself by actually walking through the meat market (yes with dead barely skinned chickens with their feet still attached hanging up everywhere and all sorts!). I just had to remember not to breathe! I then was able to pick up a couple of cooler items of clothing as my t-shirts seem to be as thick as a winter jacket over here!

 the skirt pants - love them!

Today (Sunday) we headed to the church of our new friends from Rockingham - the Anglican church of Cambodia. It was a nice cool (lots of air-con) service and we were also pleasantly surprised to see two of the ladies working at Sunshine in attendance! We went to a lovely cafe called Fresco's for lunch which had a good play area for our James and their 4yr old boy. James is now the little boy's shadow :) We followed it up by a wander around Soriya mall where we found a box of over 400 Disney movies for $15! We didn't buy it but may head back sometime soon.

James and I outside the Anglican church playing on the swings

And so, we are sitting here relaxing, listening to our neighbours sing some very loud and rather off-key karaoke. They were singing it all yesterday too :) It's rather funny to listen to. James seems to like it though....