PhotoHunt: Itchy

If you look very closely you can see many, many ants...Andrea and I discovered them when we didn't clean the kitchen completely before going to bed one night (we learned our lesson very quickly!). Ants are enough to make me itch!

Cambodia- the Hotel!

I would have to say that as of now this is the fanciest place that I have ever stayed.

The pool

Looking at the balcony's of the rooms from the poolside.

Our key...how funky are those wholes?

A close-up at the key with the name of where we were saying.

Another view of the pool.

One part of the lobby

Lobby

The cool lights in the lobby.

Andrea waiting for the others to come downstairs.

The clocks with the different times.

All the water bottles that Andrea and I had collected together by the end of the week.

We got two new ones everyday from the hotel!

The entrance to our bathroom.

The bathtub.

The shower.

Our closet with included safe.

Looking into our room from the door.

Another view of the water bottles (fridge underneath).

Our beds...super comfy beds!

Everything packed up, ready for us to go home.

A beautiful painting on the wall beside me bed.

Sitting chairs and little table.

Balcony doors.

View from our balcony.

The other direction.

Looking down to the entrance to the hotel.

The welcome sign.

CD1 - Lunch

I will be labeling each post as C (for Cambodia) D (Day) # (For what day I am talking about) - Topic (what I am blogging about in this post). It will be too confusing if I label each as Cambodia---blah, blah so that is why I will be doing CD# -

We had assumed at the beginning that our group was going to be pretty big, because when we think tour groups we think lots of people with awesome clothes, big sunglasses, and huge old fashioned cameras. But we kept looking around the whole gate and couldn't find anyone with the same tag as us. Finally when we got off the airplane in Cambodia we stood to the side hoping that someone would come up to us, finally someone did, she introduced herself as Sophia and told us that there were only 5 of us in the group. We quickly found the other two girls and went inside to find our group leader. For some reason the other 3 seemed to have a lot of other paperwork that we had never been given, but it didn't seem to be too much of a concern of the group leader (oh something that we quickly discovered---he knew pretty much NO ENGLISH!!! They assumed that since we were coming from Taiwan that we must be Taiwanese and as such speak Chinese...WRONG! Luckily the 3 girls in the group knew enough English that we were comfortable for the trip).

After going through customs our first stop was lunch!

When we first sat down at the table this guy came around and put ice cubes in our cups for us if we wanted them...look at the size of the cubes! Then came the delicious food! They kept putting plate after plate of food onto the lazy Susan and boy were none of us complaining :D

Andrea after finishing (we didn't even eat a portion of the food!)

Look at that yumminess--you should be proud to know that I even ate fish at this lunch.

After lunch we all had to use the little girls room. I thought these signs were really cool and my Mom always likes to take the pictures of bathroom signs, so I took these for her :D

The sitting area in the hotel where we ate lunch. We were hoping that we were staying here but we ended up somewhere else that was just as nice.

They had these really pretty things all around the lobby and in the bathroom.

As there was only two stalls in the bathroom we had to take turns going to the bathroom, so what did we do while we waited our turn? Took pictures of course :D

Cambodia--the Adventure!

Can you believe it's been almost two months since I went to Cambodia? And I haven't even begun to cover it (and believe me there is a lot of covering to do!)...ahhh!! But it starts now, I accidentally left my book with all of my journal notes at my Mom's house, so for now I'm just going to start adding pictures and then when I get the book I will add the journaling.

Do you see that TV? Do you see what the destination is? Yep, it's Ankor...as in CAMBODIA!! Like I totally went there :D

Look how happy we are despite having already been up for several hours and being a little nervous about finding our group.

Yeah we had already been awake for several hours by this time. I think we had to be at the airport by 6:30ish and had to leave an hour before that from the apartment where we were staying.

Our first glance at the airport! Isn't is beautiful?

Our airplane that we walked from...isn't that crazy that we had to walk inside from the airplane? There were only 3 gates in the airport.

So beautiful!

I so want to ride one of those! (and I do later :D)

Siem Reap International Airport! Welcome to CAMBODIA!

Really cool statue leaving the airport.

Andrea modeling the cool hat and scarfs that we got.

The strings on my hat were a little short so I didn't end up wearing it very often.

Really interesting detail though.