Bye Cambodia

After a day long bus ride to Siem Reap, we spent a couple days to visit some friends and then caught the night bus to Kampong Saom (Same beach as before). The night bus was pretty crazy. Unfortunately I fogot to take a picture, but the beds were flat for about 4 feet and then inclined for about 2 feet. They weren't the most comfortable beds, but we gotta a little shut eye. They also made everyone take off their shoes after they got on the front of the bus. That made for some interesting smells.

Kampong Saom was as relaxing as the first time. We even found a new favorite thing. At nights, they put all the tables and chairs on the sand and had 3 dollar barbeques. They were sweet! Also, we couldn't eat without a fruit shake :)

Wednesday we decided to end our stay in Cambodia and head over to Thailand. We caught the bus and made it to the Thai border around 2. Once again we got a couple laughs and smiles out of the custom officers, Then we crossed the border and our communication ability declined dramatically. We were told that another bus would pick us up across the border, but there were no buses. We were put in a van and then changed vans about 4 times every 10 minutes. The final van was to take us all the way to Bangkok where we were gonna meet up with the Pinvises family. We served with their son in Cambodia. On the way over, I asked Kory if we wrote down their number. (We didn't have a phone, but we would cross that bridge when we came to it.) Turns out that we forgot to write down their number as well.......this was gonna be interesting. We stopped to get gas and there was a little cafe near by which had wi-fi! We also had just enough juice on my itouch to pull the numbers off our email before it died.

Now time to figure out the phone situation. We were gonna ask the driver to borrow his phone but he spoke no english and we were in the back seat. Luckily the person in front of us pulled out a phone and called someone. He was nice enough to let us borrow his phone. Then we called Ariel and her dad talked with the driver and we were dropped off on the side of the road and took a taxi. It was now around 10 at night and we had been on the road for about 15 hours. We final stopped and we looked at the meter. it was 200 baht. about 7.50. We only had about 140 baht on us, but we werent too worried. we had dollars on us as well. Well we quickly found out they don't take dollars in Thai like they do in Vietnam and Cambodia. Ariel pulled up behind us and we embarrassingly asked her if she had 40 baht. She searched in her car for a couple minutes and came up with just enough. Long day.........but it was nice to sleep in Air Conditioning and comfortable beds that night. They even had Thai curry waiting for us when we got there!