Hello From Cambodia

Well, We are in the incredible country of Cambodia. The people here arevery happy and kind on the outside. I don't know if it is because I am tourist and they want to get my money, but they seem very sincere. The last couple of days we have been going to Angkor Wat and the temples around. We hired a tuk-tuk for the four of us. Our driver is a guy named Sane.I asked him a couple of questions about himself and he was a little taken back because tourists usually just tell him where to go. he is 26 and the sixth child of 10 of a farming family in a small community. He moved to Siem Reap with another brother and sister. I asked him how many kids he had and he said a surprised no. he said that to get married it costs $2000 to buy a woman from her family. He usually only makes $200 a month. he said that he is saving his money though to go to school. His situation is better though. He used to work in a factory in Phnom Pehn and only made $70 a month working 6 days a week. I told him that to get married in the US it costs around $2000 just in dating fees also.Angkor Wat is incredible. It is the largest religious structure in the world and one of the 7 wonders of the world. American classic movies like Tomb Raider have been filmed here. A lot of the temples have 20 foot faces of former kings in them. One of them had 216 faces of the king (to show that big brother is always watching) The temple complex was built from the 2nd century to the 14th. You will need to look this up on the internet.There are tons of kids with excellent english skills here. The majority of the people here in this town speak English incredibly well. Yesterday we went to lunch right before a huge downpour. A group of children trying to sell bracelets and postcards and books learned our names and gave us papers about them so that we would buy their things. We went to eat and told them that we would think about it. There was a huge down pour while we were eating. The 15 year old girls working in the restaurant had a huge waterfight in the back in the rain. It was pretty funny to watch. When we had finished eating we thought that the rain had gotten rid of the kids. We were wrong. We tried to get in our motorcycle taxi and they ran up to us. They tried every trick in the books to get us to buy their things and then resulted to guilt by telling us that we had promised to buy and that we were liars. I felt bad because I knew what it felt like to be rejected in the mission so many times and these were only kids. I ended up buying a copied book today from one. I am a sucker.We will be in Siem Reap today and tomorrow. We then go to Phnom Penh and fly to Ho Chi Minh city (Saigon) on the 15th while we have a layover and then go to Danang Vietnam.