Sick in Ho Chi Minh City

Trip Start Nov 08, 2007

Trip End Nov 24, 2007

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Mom's Guesthouse Siem Reap

Flag of Cambodia Siem Reap, Cambodia
Monday, November 19, 2007

Hello family, friends, and travelers from the Bridgers. Don't have too much to discuss from yesterday. Jenna and I went to an established restaurant (note I say established becuase we've sent pictures of Jenna eating street food from all over) and had a good meal. Jenna's got a buy one get one free deal though. She bought the meal and then got a free case of the nausea! She spent most of the night Sunday night "ralphing" in the toilet from food poisining. It was a bad night for us both but mainly for her. Poor thing-she kept most of the hotel up with her loud yelling when she would be sick. I kept trying to hold her hair, flush the commode, and tell her to quiet down at the same time (akward to say the least!) Monday morning she woke up and felt a little better so we went to breakfast-she had half a piece of toast and felt worse, so she went back to bed until noon (checkout) and then we left for the airport. Our flight wasn't until 6PM however she was able to talk them into bumping it up to 4PM.

We left Ho Chi Minh City at 4:35 and arrived in Siem Reap, Cambodia around 5:45PM

Curry Chicken in Cambodia!

. We love Cambodia! It's been soo neat to be in this laid back small town. This is probably one of our favorite places thus far! The people are so nice and warm to tourists (I'm sure most of the income comes from tourism however they are still so warm!)

Got to our hotel from the airport and they had us a room waiting (I had emailed them the other day to set it up). Nice room with Air Conditioning, fridge, recently updated, etc. The name of the place is Mom's Guest House.

We came to the Old Market part of town which has a trade market and lots of neat shops and restaurants. We had dinner at a nice place with lots of atmosphere. I had curry chicken and Jenna had traditional Khmer amok. It was a sweet-tasting dish that was kind of like basil chicken stir-fry from Lime Leaf in Spartanburg. Beer (local brew called Angkor) was only .75 per glass!

Back to the hotel for a early night in. Jenna's stomach still was a little unsettled too but we were heading out to Angkor Wat tomorrow for sunrise at 5:00AM. We've rented a taxi for the whole day and will explore this "ancient world" most of the day. Google it-its facinating

Jenna sick!

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On another note from a previous entry from Halong Bay Vietnam:
We had a special guest in our cabin on the boat. I had purchased a candy bar in case I didn't like the food on the boat. The food was fine but on the 2nd day I wanted my candy bar. It was missing-I asked/blamed Jenna (saying she had taken it from me) however she denied it. We later found a hole had been chewed in the backpack and the Snicker bar had been taken. Turns out another couple had the same thing happen. Must have been a rat on the boat! So glad we didn't know that before we got off!

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