2-27-2011 Sunday

This morning we had a 5:00 a.m. wake up call, and as you can imagine we were practically fighting over who was going to be the lucky once that got to get out of bed to answer the phone!!  Our tour guide and driver picked us up and we went to the amazing Angkor Wat temple where we watched the sunrise.  We headed in to the temple and walked through the ruins for four hours learning about the stories behind reliefs on the walls, Buddhism, and the meaning of the lay out and artifacts.  It was massive and very cool to see.  We even got to climb up a giant staircase to the Bakan which is the top most section of the temple that housed the laying Buddha.  We returned to the hotel around 10 and had a delicious late breakfast.  We hung out at the pool reading, swimming, and of course napping!!  After showering up we headed out to Bayon temple which had many interesting faces carved all over the ruins.  We had a funny photo shot with Amanda and our tour guide, and we also got a history lesson on the ruins themselves and Cambodia as a whole.  We jumped back in to our car after a few hours, and headed to pub street which was busy and full of shops, restaurants, and unique people.  We got a fish pedicure, which is were you sit around a giant tank and leave your feet in water for 25 minutes while fish eat off your dead skin!!!!  It was hilarious and took us forever to work up the courage to put our feet in that tank!  It tickled, and was one of those things you just had to try!  After a yummy dinner and brief shopping after running in to some of our Chinese medical teammates yet again (they were also at Angkor Wat that morning), we grabbed some ice cream and headed back to the hotel to get a good night's sleep!