Today will be our last day in Cambodia. We've absorbed the culture and have done the obligatory tourist stop at Angkor Wat. In general, we feel the timing of our trip has worked out perfectly. Kara and I are both the most pathetic tourists to have travelled southeast Asia: we really don't care to see the typical sites, preferring to stop in a cafe and drink sweetened coffee instead of visiting another wat or some royal palace. Still, though, Angkor Wat was a must-see, so we did it. It was cool enough, but neither of us felt it merited a 7-day pass or anything. I don't know what people do there for seven whole days.
So now we're planning on rounding the bend back into Thailand. We're going back to Bangkok for a day or so - hopefully to catch a Thai boxing match while we're at it - and then will head south for a few days (more beach time) before coming back up to the city for our final weekend. Should be wild.
We're both feeling good and have adjusted to the heat. I can't believe how quickly time has passed... at this rate, before I know it, winter will be here. Luckily, by then, my tailor-made winter coat should have arrived. So no worries.
I finally bought the batteries for my digital camera two days ago, so I've managed to snag a few photos. Unfortunately, most of our pics are on 'real' film, and I doubt we'll digitize them.
I did, however, get some snaps of the monkey family we saw yesterday off the beaten path at Angkor Wat. We had said, on multiple occasions while checking out the site, "Where are all the monkeys? Lara Croft: Tomb Raider is so unrealistic.' But I guess that it wasn't so unrealistic after all, because there really are monkeys there. It was very exciting for both of us... the Camobidans thought our enthusiasm was pretty funny. As Kara put it, 'It would be like if someone came to America and got really excited about all the pigeons.'
But dude, we saw monkeys.
So there we are. I honestly can't believe we're going to Thailand tomorrow. This trip is passing with lightening speed. Yesterday we were surprised to find out what day of the week it was... I still feel like it's sometime mid-April, but here we are, July 16. I head home in 10 days. That's insane.
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