Day 690 - Shopping

Day 690 - ShoppingWith the final due date home now all but confirmed, we seem to have forgotten how to keep our bags light, and our bags grow on every trip to the market. Today we indulged in skirts, a scarf, and a pair of glasses for Liv, and a painting for Adam as well as scoring a couple of cheap, fake Lonely Planet guides for Malaysia and the Philippines (our next 2 destinations after Thailand). In classic Cambodian style our Malaysian guide has the pictures from Vietnamese Guidebook, and the front page information from the Burmese!! For lunch we had a taste of China - after more than a year out of China, we really miss things like the food from our surrogate home and we often dream of returning.

Today we did something unusual for us, and booked a flight ticket to Bali 2 months in advance - this is a precaution to make sure we actually make it home this year, as we have a habit of arriving in new countries and staying for much longer than planned! So, we're now one step closer to home ...

Tonight is our last night in Cambodia, and therefore our last night with Sam and Nicole, who we've been travelling with for close on a month now. We're really going to miss their great company, but we've got beaches to relax on in Thailand and they've got climbing to do in Vietnam. Hope to see you guys in NZ sometime soon!! For our last night together we all went out for Khmer food (this time it was actually tasty!) and then hung out until bedtime.

Adlibing it with wonderful friends.