Traveling, Museum, and Shopping

Sorry I've been so bad about blogging but it's pretty hard now because my mom's computer died. But yesterday we basically spent the whole day shopping for souvenirs and at the Khmer Art Museum. We went to the museum first thing and it was interesting even though we come every time we go to Cambodia. The museum is like a timeline, you start at the earliest artifacts then make your way up to the most recent ones. But since there was a tour there we started at the end and worked our way to the beginning. Mostly it was sculptures and paintings but there was also a lot of really beautiful iron and bronze work. Most of the statues were of religious figures but most were missing arms, heads, and various other body parts. There were whole rooms filled with just statues of the Buddha. There were a lot of pieces of temples which had been taken apart to be catalogued when the Khmer Rouge came and destroyed the records so there aren't any records of where each piece goes. So basically there are whole temples in pieces and are literally giant puzzles. Some parts of sculptures have been constructed again and are displayed in the museum. After we went to the museum we went shopping for more souvenirs at the museum we bought a sculpture of a head which was on a temple in Siem Reap. Then we went to he street with all the "expensive" boutiques which aren't actually expensive by American standards but in Cambodia they were expensive. We bought a little more silk, I have no idea what we're going to do with all the silk! Afterwards we went back to our hotel room and at 5 we went to Wat Phnom. The Wats in Cambodia are the temples, they're usually really elaborately painted with a lot of the type of curbed roofs typical to Cambodia. We visited our friend the elephant Sambhor who we rode all our other trips but the cost to ride has gone up a lot and we decided just to feed her bananas instead. We also went into the art gallery here. It said that it was an art Museum but it's not really it's filled with dioramas of different legends and upstairs it's all dioramas of the Khmer Rouge. Then we went to the bat tree which is filled with huge fruit bats. We wanted to see them all fly off but it got too late so we went to dinner at Chao Jome. It's a Thai restaurant and we're sort of friends with the owner and we go there every trip. The food was pretty good my brother and I both got their legendary shakes Which I remember being really good but they were only ok. That night we had to pack and I packed but then I started feeling really sick so I went to bed bu my parent and brother were being EXTREMELY loud so I couldn't really sleep. This morning I still felt really sick, it's terrible I always get sick right before I go on long flying trips and it only makes me hate flying more. I'm in Hong Kong now and we bought a crossbow in the jungle but we don't have arrows or anything but they took it anyways. We're leaving in about a half hour but one gate is closed and we have to go through this whole securty thing and we aren't even at our gate yet.
Write more later!
Ming :)