Obrigado?

Dec 15, 2010 07:09

We've been wandering around the temples of Angkor for the past two days. It's absolutely mind blowing that they were built 900 - 1000 years ago!!!!!! They're so beautiful and almost overwhelming at times. But it's completely trippy that they're real. Someone built them. Someone lived in them. Trying to imagine what they looked like in their prime, and what the people who lived there must have seen and done..... Pretty damn cool. And bizarre.  I really hope that one day, in some other life, I get a chance to see all the ages of this world, I think it would be absolutely fascinating.

We were up at 4:45am today to see the sunrise over Angkor Wat. Wandered around some more temples after that. Decided to finally try the Dr. Fish: you sit on the edge of this giant fish tank with your feet in the water, and all the little fishies swarm your feet and nibble away at the dead skin. Gross. And really tickley.

Spent the afternoon at a random spa which was surprisingly nice. The three of us got full body massages and pedicures, then I decided to brave a bikini wax - since both Jade and Rob informed me that things were getting out of control. (I'm used to keeping things in line with my epilator and am lost without it.) I've never been for a wax before. It's strange how impersonal it was, considering they were all up in my business. Yes, they. Two pretty Cambodian girls were simultaneously ripping away at my poor, hairy little cooter. It was supposed to be a bikini wax, and one girl told me she couldn't wax everything, which I was perfectly fine with. Then halfway through she goes, "I think we can do it!" and there wasn't much I could do to stop them. So now I'm all bare down there (and sore) and it totally weirds me out. I'm not a fan. At all. It makes me feel naked. And like a little girl. Creepy and uncomfortable. This will not be a regular occurrence. Although once the discomfort subsides I'm sure it will be nice - considering I plan on spending the next month on a beach. Yay!!!!!  Oh, the total price tag for a 2 1/2 hour spa experience: $27. I love Asia.

I got a pissed off message from Beautiful Banga saying I should have messaged a long time ago to tell him what's going on, that he's waiting on me to try and sort out his life, etc. I get it, I do. But it made me angry because I'M TRAVELING. It's not like I have much free time to be sitting at my computer. And I actually wanted to take the time to think about what I was going to say to him. Instead he got a fairly crisp and condensed version, saying Mike is coming to Thailand we're talking things out. Jade and I are going back to Auz but will avoid him. That I'm really glad I saw him. That I love him and hope one day we'll be friends.  Not exactly the way I wanted to do that. And I kind of can't believe that after two years I'm throwing it all away. That I'm ending things before they even really began. I so desperately wanted he and I to be a reality. I thought he was my other half, the one I've been looking and hoping for....  I have a twinge of remorse, but I'm sticking to my decision. I just reeeeeeeally wish things could have ended better. I'm not looking forward to his response. If he even responds.

On that note, it's time to get ready for bed (at 9pm) so I can get up at 5am again and do it all again! Except tomorrow after another exceptionally early and long day, we get to hop on a midnight bus back to Phnom Penh for 6 hours. Ew..

adventure 101, oh boys!, beautiful banga

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