Woke up this morning in Siem Reap to the buzzing of tuk tuks. Our flight leaves Cambodia this morning, bound for Bangkok, to catch our connection to Auckland, NZ. We're preparing for a long day. We arrived in Bangkok without any major problems. We had just over six hours to wait in the airport before our flight to New Zealand. Checking in at the Thai Airways counter proved to be disasterous. They told us that our reservation had been cancelled by STA and th...

Yikes, October! We don't want to go home yet. This morning we left our guesthouse at 7am with our Tuk Tuk driver and an English speaking guide that we hired for the day. They took us all around the Angkor complex and we visited at least 10 temples before returning to Angkor Wat for a very detailed tour of the perimeter of the temple to understand all of the carvings that tell the story of the Cambodian people. Most of the carvings depict war, changing of power an...

Enjoyed a bit of a sleep in this morning and watched the simpsons movie in our room since it was raining for a bit. Grabbed some breakfast in the cafe downstairs before heading off to Old Market downtown. The market is a bunch of indoor stalls selling everything from pigs to jewelry. If you haven't ever seen a live pig strapped to the back of a moped sqealing as it arrives at the market, you haven't lived. Bought a few silk scarves and a tshirt then found a book...

Woke up early and actually had a dream about going to starbucks even though I don't drink coffee. Ran and got some tea and food from starbucks before heading off to the aiport for our flight to Siem Reap, Cambodia. The flight was only 30 minutes long but we got a meal. God bless the thai airlines. I'm not sure what we expected in Cambodia. We saw rice fields as the plane landed and pictured quiet dirt roads with modest accomodation and family run restaurants. Ins...

Bec and I woke up today trying to think of the best way to prepare ourselves for the biggest party we've...OK, I've ever been to. What better than to do nothing. So that's what we did. After breakfast at the hotel, we read our books on the beach, and cooled off in the pool. I think Bec just floated for about an hour in the pool. After lunch by the pool and apple pie, we dived into a know-down-drag-out ping pong tournament. Needless to say, Becky kicked my a...