My Birthday
I hadn't wanted to spend my birthday in the sleepy rather dirty town of Kampot so on the 18th we moved up to the capitol, Phnom Penh.
On the morning of my birthday I opened a couple of presents from my friends back home and then headed out to the Russian market. It was fantastic, it had hundreds of stalls selling silk scarves, silk cushions, silk bed throws, carvings, Buddha heads, dvd's, clothes, food and much, much more. It was however roasting as the roof to the market is made of metal which heated up very quickly and began to slowly cook people on the inside.
Next we went for a walk along the river where we came across a place advertising blind massages, we had heard they were good and for only $5 an hour you couldn't wrong. They were so friendly but I don't think I have ever been in that much pain. They dug their elbows into my back, their fingers into my arms and for the entire time I kept looking over to Emily to see if hers was more relaxing. But with her face screwed up making silent yelps I knew she was enjoying it as much as me.
There was one point when Jenna was getting her butt massaged and I was dying to take a picture but my girl had me in a death grip that would have been impossible to escape from. After wards I felt a bit more limber, I had also found out that I can touch my lower back with my feet and I have some very soft points on my skull.
We moved down the road to a beauty palour of sorts as Jenna wanted her legs waxed. I some how got persuaded to have a facial which I found out later was an attempt to get rid of me so they could get me a birthday card.
I got some lovely presents including a small ruby necklace (my birthstone) from a jewelry factory in Changmai, along with a bracelet from every country they had been without me, a T-shirt from the Hobbit House Bar in Manila (where the bar is run by dwarfs) and a key ring.
That night we went to a famous little restaurant that we'd heard about through word of mouth. It was a small little pizza place called 'Happy Herb Pizza' the title says it all. So we ordered a couple of 'happy' pizzas and settled back to watch the hustle and bustle of the streets of Phnom Penh.
- Posted by k_millington on 24/07/2007.
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