mak wa and then come choy oy!

Oh it's been so long, seriously next time I come to Southern Vietnam, bringing a 'puter because in the south it's hard to find a computer and the internet cafes are almost next to nil, awful connections/old computers, pu-tuey!!!
And now I'm back writing from Siem Reap, Cambodia. And oh what a journey it was getting here. This morning woke up in a "midget room" and took a shower in a "midget shower" which of course I thought was fabulous!!! I could touch easily the ceiling in the bedroom i shared with an english couple and the shower, well with my head against my shoulder, i could wash my hair...and heck na was i sitting in the bathtub....I mean if I hadnt stayed all day with these 2 Anglish couples and not gotten into Pnomh Penh at 7 pm during a monsoon, I would never in a million years chosen, the "guesthouse" ie hostel and shared a a room with 2 of them....but then again it was for midgets so how could i resist!
So this morning had the 2nd best banana pancake for breakfast, go to check out and get my bus ticket and had my first hissy fit, yelling at the receptionist because he booked me on the cheap bus instead of the luxury bus. Now it's not that I am a pretentist?, elitist that I wanted the luxury bus. No partly because of the last three days had been in the crappiest busses, staying in crappy hotels, partly because the journey to Siem Reap was 6 hours, and finally because i heard the buses had chandeliers inside and I had to be in a bus with swinging chandeliers but no....i get the crappiest bus I've been on thus far. To make matters even better....when i get in (after being sent to the wrong bus, getting my luggage back, finding the new right bus...you can tell I''m in the best mood ever...it was like I hadnt had a good cup of coffee in weeks, it was that kind of a mood)...and then in the bus, i find then i get to share the tiniest seat ever with a Cham grandmother? and her grandbaby. Of course, she's all smiles and the monkey child is cute, but seriously she was a monkey climbing all over things, I felt bad for the guy sitting in front of them because she kept yanking back his seat and tapping on it....choy oy freaking choy oy....but then the rain clouds parted and I was back to normal when the grandmother? pulls out some baguettes and gives one to the monkey and then to me. At first, I try to give it back, say thank you, tell her I'm not hungry but she insists and then when she sees that I'm not eating it, takes it and then gives me a bag with 2 fresh ones in it. It was so sweet and unexpected; oh the lil monkey child, she seemed all the more tolerable and lovely suddenly! And the grandmnother? ket talking to me in khmer and I politely nodded and smiled having no idea but suddenly, finding her the most adorable, almost toothless woman I had seen in my life.
And then on our first stop, I got to try crickets and taratula (the last few days have been amazing for new food experiences: rice wine and snake are deicious and eel is not) Also like spider better then cricket but loved how the "monkey" ate as many as I would give her.
Back on the bus for 2 hours they showed this amazing cambodian spaghetti western type movie about vampires feeding on chinese kung fu masters with english and cantonese subtitles...amazing!!!!! So by this time I'm in love with this bus experience and the creme de la creme, the cherry on top and why i keep writing grandmother with a ?, the monkey child kept breastfeeding her grandmother/mother next to me, her head basically in my lap everytime....now again, when I am ever going to have a tel experience!!!!!! Amazing again and finally I'm in a fantastic hotel in Siem Reap, super character, very nice facilities, very expensive for the taxi drivers tastes as they tried to steer me some where else....but I'm finally at a place I like and I also have free door to door tuk tuk service included, so I'm happier then a pig in a blanket!
The Mekong Delta was fantastic; Vietnam by boat is the only way to go! And sadly I left:(
Fortunately, I had the most amazing bus adventure ever today!