Phnom Penh to Hua Hin

Back to the city, back to Silver River Hotel, hot showers and comfy beds. Checked out the museum, a bit lame after seeing the royal palace, it looks as though the museum got their leftovers. We checked out both the Russian and Central markets. After many markets in different countries and communities, most start to look much the same same, but the Central market has them all beat with a massive beautiful yellow building and a high central dome that leads to four corridors. Wandered around and Steve received his first Cambodian haircut for $2.00. Now he's a sharp looking man! Later on I got mine colored for a whopping $7.00. There is a street by our hotel, close to the museum, where the locals go out in the evenings for some fun and fitness. Kids play soccer on pavement and all ages play badminton using the street barricades as a net. Many walkers and runners catching a bit of daily exersise, again same same but different! A lot of people want to say hi and practice their English and again welcoming us to their country. There are so many poor people living here, we've read that one third live below the poverty line and some people only have one set of clothes! That's a lot of people considering close to 2 million live in this city! I've seen families sleeping in the park while washing themselves and laundry. Now these are not druggies or addicts, these are the poor and homeless, quite mind boggling! Oh we have so much in the western world, it has been quite an eye opener! What do you really need and when is enough enough! Wish I could send everyone I know here, it really makes you take a good look at yourselves! We have seen six up on a moped, a mom breast feeding while being a passenger on a moped, kids sleeping on the speeding moped and an incredible amount of goods, car parts and merchandise hauled around on a moped, pigs, ducks, ladders, and huge stacks of eggs, most anything that we'd use a truck for. Handed in our passports and waited for our visas to process and head back to Thailand. There has been some conflict between the Thais and Cambodians over a temple, this has been going on for a long time. The conflict is happening at a land boarder crossing so to be on the safe side we've decided to catch a flight. We also bypassed the city of Bangkok and head towards the ocean to the city of Hua Hin. We had to wait a few days for the visa's to process and once again are lucky to have our friend Anne's niece Lindsay and gang to hang out with. These fine young adults are 25 to 30ish and in Phnom Penh mostly teaching English. We hooked up them at the Happy Herb Pizza parlour on the river. The next night Lindsey invited all for dinner at her place for yummy pasta bolonaise. Checked out their pad and had a good laugh at the freezer, it was an impressive solid block of ice (oh to be young again). A fun night and great send off! Caught our flight and hired a taxi for a 2 1/2 hour trip to Hua Hin. Because of our later flight it was so worth the $90.00! Settled into our fine hotel # ___ (who knows, where are my notes?). Anyways, rested up for some sight seeing the next day! Another new city to discover, when does it end? Lovin the adventure and mystery of what tomorrow may bring!