I think I've broken my toe. I definitely did break my camera and there is a lovely bruise on my leg from an incident involving a bar stool - I think. I saw the biggest spider imaginable and I'm talking like the size of 2 fists minimum without exaggeration. Craig can affirm this - it was a beast!
We did in fact go to the beach in the rain. Izzie and I jumped straight jumping over the rather ferocious waves and splashing around. Craig sat on the beach, but after a while took all our stuff back to the hotel and brought down some towels. In his absence we got circled by some local boys for goodness knows what reason. We got out and sat on the beach, but the surf was too tempting and sat with our toes in the water, which eventually led to us just diving back in. There were a few pretty big waves, one of which took me unawares. Izzie ducked under and somehow I got flung around landing on top of Izzie, kneeing her in the head. She took a while to resurface so I dragged her back onto the beach especially when she felt a bit dizzy. I sat her down and asked her to follow my finger. She couldn't. So I went on a mission to find a torch to check her pupil dilation. This took a bit of effort and brought me across the path of the Frenchies. I eventually got a torch and her pupils weren't really dilating either. Yes I concussed Isobel. This had got the attention of the French teacher. After explaining what happened, he didn't seem too bothered and after he sat down, he was greeted by whispers of 'qu'est-ce qui se passe?;?'' (what's happening). Craig then reappeared and agreed and we told izzie not to go back in the water whilst we swam. I got a bit of a fright when I turned round and she wasn't where we left her. I responded by yelling '"Isobel zai nali?" i.e where's Isobel in chinese. It took me a few seconds to realise Craig hadn't the slightest clue what I was talking about. She hadn't wandered too far. however we thought it best not to leave her alone. So we sat chatting and I spotted a spider on my leg so I screamed got up and ran around the bar knocking over some chairs. What a way to cause a scene! I asked whether the spider was still there. Craig said yes, Isobel said no. In my rational state of mind I started telling her I hated her. This was being translated into French for entertainment value. I think we decided to go back to the hotel. I had to keep a watch on Izzie and pay careful attention when she was in the shower just in case. She was very giggly and giddy during this whole period.
We went to a place called the snake house. It had lots of snakes in glass cases, including under the table. It was a little disappointing as there weren't as many snakes as we had hoped and we weren't able to hold them as the handler wasn't around.
We headed back, changed slightly (I brushed my hair and for the first time in a very very long time applied makeup) and hit the beach for cocktails. We started in a little restaurant on the far end, but got bored as there was no music so went in search of a bar. Who did we find there? The frenchies of course! They were very drunk (despite it being fairly early) and very stupid. One girl was wandering off with a Cambodian and this is an area that had a very high profile case of rape and several others were stripping off and jumping in the sea. There is a common warning that there are sharks at night. Our responsible sides took over. we found the one sober student who was so happy to have help from french speakers. He explained that their teachers weren't around (because they are nice and cool) so we rushed to their aid. Called the students out of the water told them it was dangerous and suggested they went back to the hotel. One girl was struggling to redress herself so i gave her a hand she looked at me and in that way only drunk people can manage told me I was very beautiful before staggering off. We saw them off. After finding a few stragglers in the bar we decided to see them back to the hotel. Silly silly students!
We carried on with our night out, which overall was an enjoyable experience.
The next morning we went on a boat trip. It was raining so heavily and we got soaked. Izzie was still concussed and Craig got seasick. There wasn''t much wildlife around because of the rain (no tigers or dolphins =[ ) we got back and dried off. I couldn't tell you if I did anything else interesting that day.
This morning we got a bus to Phnom Penh. It is election weekend so no alcohol is being sold (though funny tasting apple juice is readily available ;-] ) and lots of things are closed.
Our tuk tuk driver tried to over charge us to the bus station. I calmly refused to pay him that much so he stopped us getting on the bus, eventually he got very threatening grabbed my arm and tried to pull me backwards and threw my books on the floor. He also tried to throttle Craig. This got the attention of the people on the bus waiting for us. They agreed it was too much, but the driver then said it had nothing to do with money it was because I had scolded him. The only time I did anything of the sort was when he assaulted me and threw my booms around at which point I had yelled ''Do not touch me" It was not a great experience. It got sorted though.
Phnom penh is ok. We went to the palace, though I was turned away as myt shorts weren't conservatice apparently. I told the other 2 to go in as they had bought the tickets already and I went shopping. I bought a new camera. I would have got mine fixed, but I don;t have time and even the one day without a camera was slowly killing me. It was good timing I arrived back at the palace gates just as the other two came out.
We had an amble around and found an english pub full of expats watching a rugby match from the tri nations. They adopted us and we had a good rugby watching sesh. We also walked out without paying, got halfway down the street and rushed back to settle the bill. Silly us.
Since then we've had dinner. I'm hoping not everything is closed tomorrow. It's our only day here so it would be such a shame!
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