jam sesh with the locals
Royal Palace
Chinese House
1.15.10 - 1.16.10: Spent two days and one night with Jenny (a girl who lived with me and Rachel for a summer in Brookline in 2006) who has been living there working for an NGO for 6 months. We had a delicious lunch outside (with her new super cute 7 week-old puppy, Mayu) and enjoyed some of the sights of the city in the afternoon, including walking along the river front. That night we had a great dinner and drinks at a really cute restaurant/art gallery called the Chinese House. Then we stopped in at a carnival on the way home to win her dog a little toy (who knew I was such a dart champion?) and we had wine and chocolate with her boyfriend and his sister who were hosting their "god parents" in Cambodia for the weekend - all the way from Grand Rapids, MI! She actually is well known in Cambodia she has done a lot of work there and wrote a book about the Khmer Rouge - I am currently reading it now. It's incredible what horrible things happened in that country only a few decades ago. Next day we had a great brunch then spent the day walking around the Royal Palace and Silver Pagoda (beautiful! no pictures inside the Wats though) and stopping in at little shops and cafes until lunch, which was authentic Cambodian food in an open, breezy place where we sat on the floor on a beautiful rug and stuffed our faces for about $5 each. Then off to the airport in a tuk-tuk for Siem Reap!
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