it's been awhilee

my stupid eyes have kept me inside friday and saturday... all i did was watch movies, sleep and try to kill the time in the least boring way possible ... facebook has become my best friend :(
today however, i was lucky enough (or so i thought) to go outside and tour three of cambodias most popular temples.. ta prohm, angkor thom and angkor wat. these places are beautiful! i think i learned more about cambodian cultire today than i ever have about canada. their religion is so detailed with stories of war and beliefs in the afterlife and spirits and everything. the walls of just these three temples, and i didnt even see the whooooooole thing, are filled with inscriptions, carvings, stories and sculptures of gods and demons and what not. i had a real tour guide with me throughout the whole time, so he knew exactly everything there was to know about these places, it was incredible!
when we first entered angkor wat, monkies were everywhere! since angkor wat is in the jungle.. monkies stay in the jungle during the morning and then come out in the afternoon to look for food. the monkies were coming within 2 feet of people, and myself, and they'd just sit and then walk around some more. they're more intimidating than i thought, probably because meng told me they would bite lol
i was going to go on an elephant ride today as well, but as soon as we got there, they were going to take a break.
around the temple areas, they have shops and kids trying to sell things to you. after i had lunch, i went back to the car to wait for meng and my tour guide to finish lunch too (for some reason we all ate seperately :S)... the kids swarm you and beg you to buy things... they'll start at one item for a dollar, then 2 for 1, 3 for 1, etc... i was stuck with three kids around me for at least 15 minutes today. i felt so bad saying no to them, i had already caved and bought some things for people at home... but it was crazy, they didn't take no and they didn't give up.
the downside to today was the intense heat that we had... i now have to wear sunglasses for 10 days because of my eye infection and having anything extra on my body during today just wasn't nice. it was so brutally hot. my tour guide said they consider this weather cooler and that it is even hotter in april. i couldn't imagine that, i miss the cold of canada so much right now... i would run around in shorts if it was snowing when i got home.