I'm off to see the wizard

Got wet on my way to PP

Well this morning I was up nice and early again for the third time this week, 5am is such a wonderful time of the day, to sleep! Anyways I decided last minute to take the boat with Seb instead of taking the bus and trying to meet up with him in Phenom Pehn b/c I knew it would just be a pain to do. By the way the bus was 4 dollars and the boat was 23 dollars and the bus only took an extra hour. So we got to the boat around 7 and had to sit up on top of the boat with everyone else who bought a ticket from a guest house, all the people from the hotels had seats inside. So I got comfortable and it was a beautiful sunrise over the lake but once we got out to open water we started getting soaked. And it was freezing up there with the wind and the cold water, my pants were completely soaked through and I was wearing a sweater and my winter hat and was still cold. After about 5 mins of this I went inside and just sat on the floor at the front of the ship to dry off. It wasn't very comfortable and I was still freezing but I just shut my eyes for a while and the time passed pretty easily. After a few hours my pants were dry and I wasn't as cold so I started reading a book. When we got on to the river it was a lot calmer so I went back out and sat on top again. The landscape was beautiful but it was really overcast so I'm sure it would have been nicer on a sunny day. When we got here I got us a tuk tuk driver and we wanted to go to this one guest house from our guide book. When we asked him to take us there he said it was closed but hé could take us to another one around the same price. I obviously didn't believe him and so I made him take us there and show us that it was closed. After a bit of driving in circles I found the place and it was actually closed but a new place had opened there so I went in to check it out even though he still wanted to take us to another place. The place was really nice, one of the nicer places I've stayed in and since I'm sharing a room with Seb its only 6 bucks a night. They didn't have a room available until 4 so we left our bags there and went to the national museum which is on the same street and about a two minute walk away. It was one of the nicest museums I've been to here and it was really cool to see all of the statues from the temples I had just visited. Picturing them inside the temples when they were first built is just mind blowing. Its so hard to find the words to explain how amazing this stuff is, you just have to come here and see it for yourself! After that we got our room and I had a nice HOT shower and relaxed while watching some TV, oh how I missed you my old friend! Now I feel like myself again even after the little sleep I got last night and the 'fun' boat ride this morning! Soon we are going to go for dinner and then out to one of the infamous Phenom Pehn night clubs.

posted by Brandon Share @ 7:12 PM