Angkor Wat, Siem Reap

The first day we were in Cambodia, we made it to Siem Reap around 4 PM. We hugged Scott and Andrea, and met their friends whom they met while training at MTI in Colorado. The hotel we stayed at was really nice, and it came complete with a bedside Bible and condoms. (I thought that was kind of funny). That evening we went out to dinner at a place called the Red Piano. Angelina Jolie had eated there while filming Tomb Raider at Angkor Wat, and the restaurant was very proud of this fact :)
The next day we got breakfast at this awesome little cafe across the street from our hotel, and then we went to see the Angkor temples. It is an amazing sight!! There are over 2,000 temples scattered around miles of jungle. The temples were built over a period of 3-400 years, and were palaces for kings as well as temples of worship. Each new king tried to outdo the last with his temple, so the most recent and most grand of the temples is also the most famous - Angkor Wat. Scott said we should see that one last so we wouldn't be dissapointed by the other ones :) All the temples were amazing. Huge stones that were placed by hand, intricate carvings on everything, and minute attention to detail. We saw the temple where Tomb Raider was filmed, where the trees are growing through the stones, it's crazy! I can't believe the work that archeologists have done and have yet to do, almost rebuilding some of these temples one stone at a time.
We went back to town in the middle of the day for lunch and air conditioning, and came back in the afternoon to see Angkor Wat. We spent hours wandering around the whole temple area, it was stunning and so cool to see.
That night we went out to eat at a really nice Indian restuarant. We ordered bowls and bowls of different curries, and tons of rice and naan. It was some of the best Indian food i've had, and the bill for all 4 of us came to $20. I love Asia.
The next morning the four of us went out to breakfast downtown. The poor waitresses thought Scott was crazy for ordering a pot of coffee for the whole table. They started giggling and everything, but they brought it to us! We sat for a while drinking coffee and chatting about lots of important sibling things :) It was very nice.
We hung out that morning (mostly hunting down places with AC and giving them service) and we left in the early afternoon for Battambang. Andrea and Scott live with a family in Battambang, and one of the sisters of that family lives with her husband in Siem Reap. Her husband is a taxi driver, so he was the one that drove us around all weekend, and he also volunteered to drive us to Battambang. His wife wanted to come too, to see her family, which meant that Scott, Jordi, Andrea, and I all had to fit in the back of a little Camry. So that's how we spent the rest of the afternoon - off through the rice fields on our squishy way to Battambang!