Rain Interrupted Breakfast

Our trip to Cambodia last week included two newbies in our team. Since we really wanted them to have a good time (and give a good report to the folk back home!), we decided to go for breakfast "al fresco style" one morning in the little seaside town of Sihanoukville.

Our hotel in Sihanoukville provided for breakfast at the restaurant, and on our first morning there, we had a good meal, ordering a dish from a list (eg, fried rice, or fried noodles, or American breakfast, or porridge). What was not available, however, was the French bread that was so special in this part of the world (Cambodia & Vietnam, which were French colonies once upon a time).

The next morning, we decided not to get our free breakfast at the hotel, and out we trotted at 8 am, down the street to New Beach Restaurant. We soon found a table under a breezy tree, and ordered breakfast.

Hmmm mmmmm! It was sumptuous!

We were busy tucking in when a small drop of rain fell on someone. Then another drop fell. The diners at the other tables started to get up. We looked right and left, and all of a sudden, more raindrops! Eeps, it was raining!A waitress hurriedly appeared with a tray, and we quickly put our half-eaten breakfast on it, and carried whatever we could as we all ran for shelter. I left behind my nearly-finished bowl of rice noodles soup, because I saw the raindrops going "plop plop" into the soup and I didn't think I wanted to er... drink that.

We found shelter at the restaurant's main building, and settled down to continue our meal. The rain fell in sheets as soon as we found shelter. Whew! That was close!We knew it was rainy season in Cambodia during these months, but God had been extremely good to us, giving us sunny weather and dry (not muddy!) ground to walk on during our trip. That breakfast morning was indeed the first time we saw rain, and it didn't last very long either.

And the next time it rained was when we were all comfortably in the car heading back to Phnom Penh. The Lord was very, very good to control the weather and the timing was perfect!