A lazy day in the city.

Well, here we are in Bangkok and getting ready to move onto Kanchanaburi in the morning. We are taking the train and it should take about three hours and cost $3. Today we did not do too much. I think that all the moving we've been doing is starting to catch up with us. On our first night in Phnom Penh I got food poisoning from my dinner, which put me out of commission for the entire next day. I resent this not only for the fact that I slept a great deal of the following day away, but also because I could barely eat anything at all without feeling sick. I love the food here, so this was truly annoying. I still look at every meal I am about to eat and wonder if it will have me up in the middle of the night making a close acquaintance with the bathroom. Even worse, our hotel was kind of a dive... the toilet did not flush (not ideal, to be sure) and there was no water pressure in the shower. Curse poor plumbing.
Despite the mind games, I am feeling much better now. However, Matt has decided to come down with something... we're not quite sure what. It is not serious (nothing a little Imodium can't fix) but we are starting to think that it is less the food and more that we really just need to rest that is causing all these issues. Moving around all the time is hard work.
This is what we hope Kanchanaburi will be. It is located on the river Kwai. We will indeed go over the bridge over the river Kwai, which I am sure you will know from the film of the same name. However, the movie was actually filmed in Sri Lanka (fun fact for the day). I have not seen the movie, so maybe I will have to rent it when I get home.

To wrap up Phnom Penh, we went to the Genocide Museum (S-21) and the Killing Fields - a somber day to be sure. It is actually incredible the pain that one human being is capable of inflicting upon another (or, in this case, one group is able to inflict over the majority of the Cambodians). I plan on writing a little more about this in the near future, but it is taking me a while to get it all down, as there is a lot to think about.

Bangkok is... a very big city. Not my favourite, but interesting. We didn't really experience too much today except for confirming that scammers do in fact exist to prey upon unsuspecting tourists. Matt would like to write about this, so I will not expand - except to say that we are too smart for them so far. Ha!

Well, off to bed for an early morning.
Cheers :)