Bangkok!

Cambodian cooking class was a success! Apsen didn't blow anything up and I still have all 10 of my fingers! We learnt how to make a spicy shrimp salad and some traditional Khmer food for our main course. It was a lot of fun doing the shopping before the meal as well. Aspen and I had the opportunity to try crickets! They tasted decent but the texture threw me off and I had a hard time swallowing it. I don't think bugs are exactly my forte of food. When we prepared our meals we had to make little bowls from banana leaves and my bowl was special. It didn't turn out so well and everyone was having a time and a half making fun of me. But in the end my bowl held my food without leaking while Aspens leaked all over the place. So I like to think of my bowl as a success.

Afterwards we were stuffed from all the food we ate so we did some shopping in the market and then went back to our hotel and showered and went out for our last night in Siem Reap. We went for supper and then to a little place that gave you free popcorn when you ordered a drink! Now that hit the spot. After we hit up a little club and danced the night away. We met a Contiki tour and the guy in charge of the tour remembered two of our friends that did a tour through Europe last year! What a small world.

The next morning was a rough one though. The grand finale of a night dancing and drinking seemed like a fun idea the night before but it made for a rough one in the morning. Luckly I slept the entire way to the boarder and then almost all the way to Bangkok after as well! By the time we arrived I was starving though because I didn't eat a single thing all day and we found a Subway. They have fastfood places on every corner here! It was pretty crazy though, people everywhere and stores all over the place. The shopping is unreal here, its very hard to hold myself back until we come back here to fly out. My bag has already begun to way more than I do and I don't think I could lug anymore extra stuff around with me.

After an early night we got up and went to one of the temples. It has this massive statue of a Budha lying down and its covered in gold! As well, at these temples a young boy was becoming a monk. That was interesting to see. All the buildings here are beautiful, so much detail put into them. And they are very colorful. When we finished at the temple we were walking back to our hotel and saw two of our friends from back home! They are on a tour trip right now and we hung out with them all morning and planned to meet up for the full moon party.

The full moon party happens this week and it made getting a bus down to the islands hard because all the tourists are migrating down for it. Luckly we found a night bus for tonight and will get there a few days early to find a good hotel to stay at. Time to try and find some hotels that are available online, more stories to come soon!