Offical Name Change: Bay & Pink Panther's Irreverent Cambodia & Thailand Blog

(Mom waiting for our ride)

As the Chucktown crew went to the left so they could go to gate 17 (headed back home) me and mom took a right and said bye bye to the cruise ship as we boarded our plan to Cambodia. No more herding us around like cattle, we are on our own. It has been quit an experience so far. Getting through the airport and customs was a brezze but once we stepped out of the airport the adventure started. We had no clue if someone from the hotel would be waiting for us to drive us so when we walked out wwe scanned the couple of signs and saw no familiar names. So, we go to the taxi station and tell them were we are going (Vilroth Hotel) and they bring us a taxi around. The taxi driver couldn't be nicer. He informed us that were our hotel is located is completely flooded. He was then nice enough to let us borrow his phone so we could call and make sure that the hotel wasn't flooded/closed; it wasn't (thank God!). He had originally told us that he wouldn't be able to drive us all the way and we would have to walk. He was right in the fact that he could not drive us all the way but we did not walk. He dropped us off at a gas station and informed us that someone from the hotel would be there in a sec to pick us up and not to move. We waited for about 10 mins then got scared and decided to get another Tut Tut to take us. We could have never walked not only was is way to far but we didn't have the slightest clue of were it was located. So we rode the Tut Tut (imagine a motorized pedicab) through the thigh deep water to our hotel were they had put sandbags at the entrance so the water wouldn't come in. Mom said she choose this hotel because it was in the center of town and you could walk to a bunch of cool restaurants. I'm not quit sure why she didn't take into concederation that a typhoon would come a flood everthing and instead of walking we would be swimming from restaurant to restaurant (good thing we have albenazole). Speaking of restaurants we had dinner at an amazing place. We had a baked pumpkin type dish (their pumpkin = our squash, some type of curry, shrimp and veggies w/ sweet & sour sauce, and 3 cokes for a grand total of $12.


(the view from the hotel entrance)

Tomorrow we will go to a Cambodian cooking class and I'm not sure what else.