Wednesday, December 27, 2006
25 December, 2006
A full day on the beach doing absolutely nothing. Everyone was in high spirits since it was Christmas (or rather Christma as the Cambodians would say). Altho’ they don’t celebrate Christmas, there are many foreigners around so there is a great vibe. We had one thing that we had to get done and that was to get to the Vietnam Embassy to get our visas (again). That took about 30 minutes and we were on the beach, in the sun, with all our Cambodian friends. We were told that the visas took quick and were the cheapest in Sihanoukville, but we got really lucky when the consular mistakenly gave us a $50 change instead of a $5. We had more massages, ate more fruit, bought beach bangles and I ventured for a walk along the beach whilst Rich did what he does best- sleep on the beach. All the stress and traveling and buses were all worth it for this! We went for an awesome fish dinner again on the beach with some wine and off we went to have our chocolate brownies. We then got onto wireless internet whilst sitting a few metres away from the beach and caught up with some of our admin and phone calls. Paradise has finally arrived.
A full day on the beach doing absolutely nothing. Everyone was in high spirits since it was Christmas (or rather Christma as the Cambodians would say). Altho’ they don’t celebrate Christmas, there are many foreigners around so there is a great vibe. We had one thing that we had to get done and that was to get to the Vietnam Embassy to get our visas (again). That took about 30 minutes and we were on the beach, in the sun, with all our Cambodian friends. We were told that the visas took quick and were the cheapest in Sihanoukville, but we got really lucky when the consular mistakenly gave us a $50 change instead of a $5. We had more massages, ate more fruit, bought beach bangles and I ventured for a walk along the beach whilst Rich did what he does best- sleep on the beach. All the stress and traveling and buses were all worth it for this! We went for an awesome fish dinner again on the beach with some wine and off we went to have our chocolate brownies. We then got onto wireless internet whilst sitting a few metres away from the beach and caught up with some of our admin and phone calls. Paradise has finally arrived.
# posted by Heidi & Richard's travels @ 3:52 AM 
