BAM!

Oh mosquitos, won't you leave me alone?!

KEP!

There once lived a lazy beach town far far away...
a town where no one got off the bus except for Stuart, me and two old ladies.
A town where there are only 3 tuk tuk drivers.
A town where monkeys roam free.
A town where nearly every guest house is wildly overpriced even in low season.
This town is a town where Stuart and I ate fresh crab and watched the sun set at a crappy little shack and did not get sick.
A town where skinny black dogs sat beside us and begged for scraps.
Where our sink leaked.
Where there were rules in our room prohibiting sexual activity.

A town that we had to get out of...
FAST!

Rabbit Island!

We got a killer deal on a boat trip to Rabbit Island (about 5 km from Kep).
So, after cramming the boat with supplies for the Island restaurants and a few locals, along with 6 tourists, we took off (sloowly) on a wooden boat that putted us to the magical beach.
BEAUTIFUL and quite secluded, we spent about 7 hours lazing around. Had breakfast, lunch, and a nice swim.
Very picturesque.
Very worth it.
We met some guy from Australia who said he was going to move to Cambodia for a while (you meet such hippi's traveling, I'm telling you!) but I tried to convince him to live in Vietnam and told him it was cheaper.

The boat ride home was unreal...
thought I would die.
the water was HUGELY choppy and the boat was, well, a little Cambodian putt putt boat.
I even wore one of their nasty life jackets!

That night we got on a bus and headed for my new favorite place in the world: Sihanouke Ville

HERE's where all the hippi's go to retire from hippi-ing!

First night we stayed in a crummy place with an annoying rip offing owner, and I don't even wanna TALK about it. haha.
BUT
now we're at a decent place with pillows that don't feel like you're sleeping on 10 pairs of socks.

the beaches are sick.
the people are awesome.

It's rainy season so that kind of bites.
but to be fair, yesterday was perfectly sunny and we spent practically the whole day at the beach burning ourselves to a crisp... walking to downtown (a little further than we thought!)... and watching the sunset back at the beach with dinners of noodles, chicken, rice, calamari and deep fried shrimp. YUM!!!

I met this CRAZY lady yesterday and drank some funky Cambodian whiskey with her out of a plastic water bottle... we chased it with some sour vegetable with spicy powder. it was DEADLY! and hilarious... because the crazy woman was hilarious...

Tried to watch the soccer game in the evening... but I fell asleep after Deutchland's first goal... but it was a good goal.. right?! So I'm okay with that.

Today it's rainy (hence all the writing).

Happy Independence Day to all you Yankees out there!