Packing Up

Today is our last day in Cambodia.  We decided to spend the afternoon getting some pre-plane pampering before our journey home.  I am sitting in Sugar and Spice Cafe above Daughters of Cambodia.  I just finished getting my first full body massage.  It was amazing, and a little painful at some points.  My skin is red and on fire!  LOL!

This weekend, we went to Siem Reap.  It is a big tourist location where people visit Angkor Watt.  We rented a van and left early Saturday morning.  Our driver's name was Mono and he was a hoot! He had the greatest laugh:)  It took about 6 hours to get there.  We found our hotel after a little bit of confusion as to which one we actually had reservations for.  Lucky Angkor Hotel was very nice!  Deanna and I were especially excited about having a comfortable bed!  The bed was pretty hard but getting to snuggle up with a comforter and comfy pillow made it nice.  We dropped our stuff off shortly after we arrived we started walking to find a market.  The market was a little farther than we thought so we waited until 4:00 and went to Angkor Watt to get our passes and see the sunset.  We walked up a hill and then a steep set of stairs with like a thousand steps to the  top of a temple.  Unfortunately, it was cloudy and then began to sprinkle, so we didn't get to see the sunset.  We took some pics before heading back.  Mono drove us back to Pub Street where we could find a place to eat and shop at the Night Market.  We found an Irish Pub and Steakhouse and had a good meal:)  We shopped for gifts and souvenirs at the night market and headed back to the hotel.  We left the next morning at 4:30 AM to see the sunrise.  It was dark walking to the temple and a man joined us in our walk and showed us the best place to stand for pictures.  I wasn't sure why he was being so helpful.  It turns out, he owned a little coffee place nearby.  He told us his name was 007! :)  He was so kind.  He took our coffee order and brought back little stools for us to sit on while we waited.  He brought us our coffee as well!  Yes, he wanted our business, but he had such a genuine heart to take care of us. We didn't get lucky in seeing the sunrise, either.  It was cloudy so waking up so early really wasn't worth it.  Anyhow, we went back to the hotel for breakfast and to pack up.

The first thing we did as soon as we arrived into the Wat was find the elephants!  I was pretty excited about it!  It was a rocky ride but a very awesome experience!  We went through a few temples but did it fairly quickly.  That was OK for most of us because we were so tired.  We had lunch at The Blue Pumpkin, grabbed a few desserts and were on our way home at about 3:00PM. We arrived home at around 9:00 PM and got to sleep in a little this morning.  I'll be getting into Oklahoma Tuesday evening.  I'm so excited to see all of you and tell you about all this in person!  See you soon!!!