Today was our last day in Phnom Pehn. I woke up fairly hungover as we played Bidwist with some Dutch friends we met the night before, and drank too much beer. We had a slow start to our morning because I needed to nap.
I was pretty grumpy most of the day, partially because I was hungover and partly because I was missing the comforts of home. Phnom Pehn is not like Canada in any way... It's dusty, dirty, and there's lots of people trying to sell you stuff on the street amongst piles of garbage. We are pretty blessed to have such good sanitation practices in Canada.
We went to Wat Phnom, and we have been wat-ed out and were too cheap to pay the entrance fee of $1. We then went to the central market. This was super cool. Imagine anything you wanted... Underneath tents and all negotiable prices. I bought two pairs of earrings for $5. Brad said I needed to work on my bartering skills. The lady started at $14 and I stayed firm at 5. They mark everything up about 80% here. It's crazy.
Then we went and chilled with some mojitoes at a pub.
We took a sunset cruise on the Mekong and Tonle Sap rivers. It was quit beautiful. Brad made more Dutch friends.
We then had dinner and went to a cool rooftop bar called FCC. It was a beautiful French colonial historic building. The prices were expensive (5-10 US!) so we left and went back to our hotel.
We had a rooftop pool, and we were warm. We went upstairs to cool off and check out the view. Some Australian guy was up there in the pool with what we suspected to be two hookers. Brad and I were enjoying the view, and unfortunately for me I saw the man whip out his Willis and swing it around for the ladies. Thanks a lot glass reflection.
Then one of the man's ladies put my housecoat on and tried to take my hotel key. Brad saw it before I did. He told her to take it off, and then she grabbed his jacket. Brad saw right through her scheme. The Australian got ticked off and completely overreacted, telling Brad he'd throw him off the balcony if that happened again.
Both of us were tired of his nonsense and went back to our hotel room.
We leave for Vietnam in the morning!!!
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