After a good day of touring temples, on our first day, our second day got started a little slower... actually a lot slower...
Once we had finished our first day of touring we had our guide drop us off down near all the bars and restaurants so that we could get dinner. We ate at the same place as we did the night before since it had decent food and we were starving. It was around 9:00pm or so when we finished and we decided to stop into another place and get a drink to relax... that was our first mistake. Our second mistake came when we read that if you buy any two buckets of alcohol (not beer) you get a free t-shirt (The t-shirt has the name of the place on it and in quotes says "promoting irresponsible drinking since 1998"). Nothing like a good deal on alcohol and t-shirts to get us going. I am not sure what we were thinking, but Chris ordered red bull and vodka and I ordered vodka and tonic. When the drinks came we got our t-shirt.. and our "buckets." They were literally buckets with about 6 straws so you can share with friends. You know the kind you get for the whole table at Howl at the Moon. So we did the only thing you could do, we drank them. And when we finished them we did the only other thing you could naturally do. I mean there are two of us and we only had one t-shirt. So yup another round of the same.. At this point the place was getting going pretty good. People were stopping off at our table. Who knows how many people we talked to or met. Then Chris started dancing... never a good sign (remember Vegas..) We finished the second two buckets and I thought we were done, but then out of the corner of my eye I see Chris ordering another round. Two more buckets.. one more t-shirt. The night did not get much better than that. Chris kept dancing and we kept talking to people. It was pretty crazy. About halfway through the third we finally did something smart and called it a night.
Once home we made another stupid decision to drunk dial Melissa. Most expensive drunk dial ever and I apologize in advance for anything we said. Honestly, I have no idea what we said, but I am sure it was not that good of a conversation. All I really know is the night ended with Chris blacking out and me forcing myself to puke before doing the same.
The next morning.. or should I say afternoon was not pretty. I felt pretty good, but Chris was screwed. I guess puking the night before helped me out more than I thought. Around 1pm we were up and I went out to let our tuc tuc driver know we would not be able to make 1pm and asked if he was cool with 2:30. He said it was no problem.. of course he would we were going to pay him the same no matter what time we got out there. After a crappy lunch I finally convinced Chris to get moving. We met up with the driver at 2:30 like we agreed and headed to Angkor Wat and a few of the other larger temples. On the way it started to pour, which in the end was a blessing since it kept both the dust and temperature down. When we got to Angkor Wat it was raining pretty good and we had to buy two ponchos from a mob of kids that rushed our tuc tuc as soon as we stopped. The ponchos sucked. The arms on it were way to short and as usual it only covered down to the top of my pants. Other than that Angkor Wat was pretty impressive. Not sure what else to say than that. After Angkor Wat we saw a few more temples that were not as heavily restored. I think I liked them best since one was in the middle of the jungle and had trees growing out of it.
By then it was 5:30 and the temples were closing so we jumped in the tuc tuc and headed back to town. It was a pretty slow night after that. Neither of us had any interest in drinking and we were still pretty beat from the night before so we just ate dinner and headed back to the room.
We got up today around 10am to catch our flight. About the only surprise was the fact we had to pay a 25 dollar exit fee to leave Cambodia. Not sure how we missed that one, but it sucked. Good thing we had USD on us since that is all they would take. The flight was short and we got back to Saigon around 4pm. We leave tomorrow for Singapore and then head to Africa on the 3rd.
