Angkor Wat

So as you can see we finally made it up to Siem Reap where Angkor Wat and some other really amazing temples are located.  The drive up there was fascinating as usual.  I really think we should make a book of all the things that people cart around on the back of motos and trucks.  We of course saw the appropriate number of pigs, chickens, fish, people (the max we've seen to date is 6 + dog), but we had never seen any vehicle with so much wicker in our lives.

If you look closely there is a second man under the wicker...is he actually holding something up?  At least if it all falls on his head it won't be too heavy! 

After arriving in Siem Reap we decided to go to the main street and have some dinner and walk around.  They close off one road so it's quite nice walking around.  Our main event after dinner was having fish eat the dead skin off our feet.  Yes, you did read me correctly.  It was actually quite a bizarre experience and it really tickles.  It was quite humiliating for me though because with the exception of Dad, my feet were the most disgusting so the fish flocked to me.  Do fish flock?  Anyway, Shawn of course thought this was hilarious and took a million pictures of how many fish my feet had compared to the rest of the people who had their feet in the tank.  Since I am writing most of this blog I have chosen not to further humiliate myself and I have left most of these photos out. 

As you can see in this photo Dad has way more fish than me!

I will say that after sitting there for 30 minutes my feet did get really really clean!

These are Dad's feet.

So, after our feet cleaning, we headed back to the hotel to get some rest for our big trip to Angkor Wat.

Here is a photo of everyone in front of some of the ruins that are in the jungle.  This is where they filmed "Laura Croft  - Tomb Raider."  The pictures really don't do it justice. 

The girls!

Here are a few more pictures that were just cute.

We like to punk our kids out sometimes.









The next day we spent the morning at the Cultural Village in town.  We went to see a show where the actors performed traditional Khmer dances.  Greta really enjoyed this.  The performers kept laughing at her.  I think she was the star of the show.

They also had a small wax museum that represented Hell.  It was really quite fascinating and pretty scary.  This creepy guy skulked behind you and jumped out at you at various times.  We made the very foolish mistake of thinking the girls wouldn't be completely terrified and had to sprint through the last of the exhibition as all four of them were screaming bloody murder.  Shawn had to yell at the creepy dude to get him to go away.  Dad and I went back inside to really read the punishments for certain crimes.  I'm glad I never tried to breast feed in any temples!  Even knowing creepy guy would be coming, I still jumped and yelled quite a few times.  He grabbed my legs! 

Anyway, after that we had to make a quick potty break.  This is the sign we found in the toilet.

Ok, we get the no smoking and  I certainly will not take a shower. The third thing I don't really understand...don't clean your feet??  And the 2nd rule, well, Roger That!

After a wonderful trip to Siem Reap we headed home to Phnom Penh.  As fast food joints do not exist here, we had to make due with what they had as far as buying food on the road.  We bought of  few of these bamboo sticks filled with sticky rice and beans.  They weren't too bad, but mom didn't really like them.  She said they needed Soy Sauce!

We will write more about our trip to Laos in the next few days.

 We also just received notice that they put an article about Shawn as the cover story in The Tennessee Bar Association Journal.  It's a great article and we are really proud of him.  If you would like to read it just click on the link.  We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas season and a Happy New Year.
Tennessee Bar Journal Article