November 20 2011

Hi everyone!!
Today was a very interesting and fun day! When we woke up we went for breakfast and then got picked up to go to the floating village. The homes we drove past in our tuk tuk almost brought a tear to my eye. To see the conditions that these people live in, and how happy they are is amazing. We are so fortunate with all that we have at home. These people have so little and yet are able to see so much positive, and we whine when we don't have enough money to do some fun activity. We really have no idea what hardship is.
When we got to our boat, we met with our tour guide ray. He is a 22 year old Cambodian man. Very friendly and so much fun to be with. He took us first to the market where we bought noodles and water for the orphan children at the school. We then took the groceries to the school where we were so warmly greeted by about 25 children. They were climbing all over us. They kept trying to get us to pick them up and were fascinated by my tattoos and piercings. They were ADORABLE! I took many photos of them. They are from Vietnam and none of them have families, they only have each other, and yet again, they seemed so happy.
After we left the floating school we went further into the lake. Shannon, Lisa, and ray all jumped into the water with their clothes on for a swim, I stayed on the boat and worked on my tan :) haha. They only swam for about 10 minutes, then we took off to the crocodile farm. I held a snake too, he places ir behind my shoulders... It felt so gross and cool at the same time, shannon and i both did it. There we also drank rice wine. Oh my god is it ever strong... It's about 40% and you have to take it all in one drink. I drank as much as I could before I just couldn't drink anymore. As we were leaving ray bought us some beers to drink on the boat on our way back. Lol he was probably the funnest tour guide I've ever met in my life.
When we got back to land we ate bbq'd snake... I was freaked out but it really wasn't as bad ad I thought it would be... It tasted a lot like BBQ chicken... I know people always say that but it's true. One piece I opened up had eggs in it, so that was the end of that for me.. Haha.
Tonight we're going to have a BBQ at the hotel were staying at with the staff and bother guests... It only cost us $5 and they're cooking up pigs ears and tongue, along with other things... They eat some wierd stuff here, but when am I ever going to be in Cambodia again? Better live life to the fullest!
Tomorrow we leave siem reap to go to sihanoukville, it's more of a beach resort type place and will take 9 hours by bus to get to. After that we head to phnom penh. I'm very excited about both places!!
That's all for now. Love you and miss you all sooooooo much!!!!
Xoxo love always and forever.
Alicia