and now for the really fun part

so this morning laura and i began our planned day of shopping and relaxation (ie eating), our last day in siem reap. we wondered down to the main part of town to find ourselves some breakfast, we ordered, our food came, all is going swimmingly, when all of a sudden i get that feeling. that 'where the hell is the nearest toilet?' feeling. arghhh. so we've spent the day staying either close to the hotel or close to nice big western style restaurants whose bathrooms i can dash to. i now appear to have a fever as well (either that or i'm coping less well with the heat than i thought i was) so i've taken myself up to stage two of the self medicating chart, and have started the antibiotics. my medical books advice that most cases of 'TD' pass in 3 to 5 days is not particularly comforting. a big win for our decision to pay twice as much for the fancier bus with toilet for tomorrows 5 hr trip to phnom penh.

hmmm. in other news, the shopping continues to be ridiculous. and lauras obsession with being angelina jolie as lara croft has become obsessive. there is now a large series of photos of her posing in temples, and the 'i wonder if angelina jolie did this' comments continue to flow. last night we had dinner at the red piano after the lonely planet helpfully informed us that angelina jolie and the tomb raider crew had hung out there during filming. they even had a special cocktail which of course laura had to order. i'm hoping that the trip will provide increasingly fewer contexts for angelina jolie references. also if laura tries to make me choose between being brad pitt or maddox again we may actually come to blows.

we found an amazing lane way of shops last night, nice little fair trade arty type shops, after i'd spent all dinner outlining my plans for a cambodian sweatshop to provide exactly that kind of product. but hey the tourism markets booming, theres always room for one more westerner wanting to drop out of life and live in disney land.

probably should get back to the hotel and within closer distance to a bathroom.... i'm so grateful this place is highly geared to western tourists, so far not a squat toilet in sight!