"She just had a baby...but it's already dead"

Wow. Alright so Siem Reap is great. The temples here are beautiful. They were built in the 12th century and I feel like I'm another world. Yesterday we went out all day looking at and exploring the temples. Our tuk-tuk driver is the coolest guy ever. His name is Bun and he brought us to see his friend because "she really wants to meet you because I tell her you are all very beautiful." So he brought us and the first thing he told us was that she had a baby and we all "awwwww-ed" and then he threw in there that it died. Very odd thing to say but I guess it's not weird here. There are little Cambodian kids that follow you around at the temples and try to sell you stuff. Well, I'm a sucker because I bought so much random crap. I can explain. One girl asked "where you from" and when I said America she started spitting out all these facts about America that many Americans probably don't even know. I asked her what the capital of California was and she said Sacramento so I had to buy some bracelets from her because she was so smart! The boy I bought from was teaching me how to play this little bamboo musical instrument and he was really nice so I bought a flute from him. At the last temple we went to there were no other people but these little Cambodian boys started playing with us and running around in the temples with us. Definitely my favorite temple of the day because they were so cute and fun. After exploring the temples all day Amy and I went to the night market and on the way back these little children were pulling on us. A skinny little boy was asking me to buy him milk and how can I say no to that? So I went into the grocery store and he led me to the baby formula aisle and I said "but this is for babies" and he said "yes for a baby." It was $10 so I was hesitant because that's probably the most expensive thing I've bought here but I don't want a baby to be hungry and what's $10 to me? A movie? So I bought him the formula and he was so happy and giggled! Then as we were walking out there were other people with babies asking for milk and I told them I couldn't buy anymore and this one 15-year old boy holding a baby started swearing at me and saying "Not for my fucking baby you fucking lady??!" I was so pissed but then I just realized...he's the one with the hungry baby, he has a right to be frustrated. Oh by the way I'm not sure if I talked about this already but everything is in US dollars here. You can only get dollars out of the atm but there's no coin-age. They give you Khmer reil instead of change. Same same. (ps "same same" means same in Thai, Vietnamese and Laos. Pretty easy to remember yeah?)

Well anyway today we woke up at 4 am and headed to Angkor Wat to watch the sunrise. It was incredible. We've basically been exploring all day so I'll just post pictures because I can't even explain. Headed back to Bangkok tomorrow. Last stop before home. So weird.