Sihounikville, Sun, Sauce, and the Sales

So took the bus from PP to Sihounikville. We arrived at night, got our rooms and then headed for some street noodles. At the noodle stand we also got a pitcher of angkor beer to go. Of course a pitcher to go, means beer in a bag...just like tea or pop in a bag everywhere else in asia. After we finished that, we headed to a bar with 50 cent draft angkors and 2 dolla (I forgot to mention before that both the USD and the Riel are used anywhere anytime) mekong whiskey buckets. We had a good time there and eventually made our way back to kyle and lindsey's nice hotel where we went swimming in our unds in their pool. At first we tried to be quiet, but then all the guards (especially the ones sleeping on the lawnchairs poolside) knew we were there, but they could care less. It is scambodia after all.

The next day we headed out to the beach where we were able to rent beach chairs and umbrellas for the whole day for just buying one mango shake or draft beer (again 50 cents). Of course we bought a few more than that and just chilled and swam in the ocean all day. Also got some beachside massages. We splurged on a seaside dinner with fresh red snapper, a salad, and amazing baked potatoes for 3 bucks. They also had mekong buckets for 1.5 dolla here and tasty cocktails for 1.5.

Something funny: a mangy dog ran under Conrad's beach chair. Conrad was trying to shoe him away, but wasn't having any luck. So he asked the guy in charge of the bar/restaurant that we were at to help him get rid of the dog as the guy had been fairly successful at getting away the annoying beach vendors. But the man didn't have the best english and thought that Conrad wanted the dog cooked for dinner! In siem reap lots of the western restaurants had signs saying, "we serve no worms, insects, dogs, snakes, or lizards"

After a quick shower in the bathroom of the sale's hotel, we all caught the night bus to phnom penh which was continuing on to Siem Reap for the Sales. Conrad, Whitney, and I got off. Our goal was to try and higher a taxi to Kratie in northern cambodia b/c the next bus there wasn't until the morning and would didn't want to stay in phnom penh another night, plus the bus would take an incredibly long time. But Phnom penh was absolutely dead at 12:30 at night. We finally found a minivan loaded with cargo that was going in the morning, and were able to convince it to take us there that night for a bit of dough. Turned out to be an ok ride, b/c we could lay the seat down onto our bags so that it was sort of a "sleeper" van. The ride was long, on incredibly rough and often potholed dirt roads. But we made it safe and sound into Kratie about 6am the next day, which was also good b/c we hadn't wasted a day travelling.