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On Thursday

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 On Thursday, we had to pick up our new passports at the US Embassy.  And let me tell you, getting new passports here is quick!  We took in our applications (and money, of course) to the embassy on Tuesday, Oct 4th in the afternoon.  We got an email on Monday, the 10th that they were here. Since Rich is teaching Isaiah in the mornings and then I & II Timothy on Monday,Wednesday, and Friday afternoons, and has language school on Tuesday afternoon, that only left Thursday to go to the embassy to pick up the passports.  We thought we would hop in the motorcycle and get close to the embassy, get something to eat, be first in line at 1 pm to get in, and be home by 1:30 pm or so.We were so wrong!!!  It so happens that the Premier of China came to Phnom Penh on Thursday; and his plane got in at noon.  To set this up a bit, we live in the south part of the city.  The embassy is in the northeast and the airport is in the northwest.  The roads that the motorcade came in was an "L