Just the way we roll- constant change

When I mentioned "constant change" in my last  post I was referring mostly to the constant coming and going of people.  But the last 36 hours have reminded me that just about everything here is subject to change. 

We don't have school next week for our fall break.  A month or so ago my church announced a 3-day mission trip to Siem Reap Cambodia for Monday-Wednesday.  I signed up with two friends and we planned our break around that.  One of them has friends in Siem Reap so we decided to head over early, on Saturday, and have extra time before the team from church joined us for 3 days of prayer, discipleship, connecting, and outreach events (our church is currently planting a church in Siem Reap that is set to launch in January).  From there we made plans to head on  Thursday to Koh Chang, an island in Thailand right next door to Koh Mak, where I went last October. 

But then last week the former king of Cambodia died.  And the country is in mourning, so large gatherings/parties (ie outreach events) are banned, so the church has postponed the trip until early November, when we are back in school.  We found out about this late on Thursday night, so Friday was spent trying to figure out what we wanted to do.   Continue on to Cambodia anyway?  Stay home?  Go elsewhere?  To make matters more complicated, until late Friday night we didn't know if the church would postpone a few days (when we were planning to be at the beach) or till November. 

So we looked around online for cheap airline tickets.  To Laos or Bali or Singapore or northern Thailand or Malaysia, or just about anywhere else you didn't need an advance visa. 

By 10pm Friday night we decided that we would still go to Siem Reap, but leave Sunday instead of Saturday so we had one more day to prepare and rest after a hectic week.  We also don't need much time there if the church isn't coming.  Hopefully we'll still be able to connect with some of the folks from church involved in the plant while we are there, and will still definitely be able to go on prayer walks and things like that.  For me, it also doubles as an advance scouting trip.  My brother is coming over in December and we're going to spend some time in Cambodia, including 2 days in Siem Reap. So it will be good to know more about how the visas, currency, transport, and all that works since I'm not a real experienced SE Asia traveler. Yet :)