Series of Misfortunate Events 6/9/15

The day started of early to head to the beautiful Siem Reap. The drive from Phnom Penh is about 5 hours and is not smooth sailing to say the least. The roads are in a way paved but covered in ruts and dirt with humps covering the entire road. Sleeping can only last ten minutes until you fly out of the seat and get whipped around. The day had a weird series of events. In the car ride Pov got carsick, now this is common as seeing he doesn't drive around often, but it was the start to an off set day. Before we arrived in Siem Reap we stopped at the floating village and a town that lies along the river. We boated out to see the village but there was just one little thing, the river was dried up. The canal that led to the river was no more than 15 inches deep and we were in a very small boat with seven people in it doesn't get through that easily. We beached every five minutes and were stuck in the blistering heat with the need to push until we could move again. We finally reached the opening of the river and boated out to a restaurant to take a little break from the sun and enjoy the quaint village of people who lived on the water. This village was clearly in a drought and I could only wonder how much their daily life was being affected by it. The rice fields out in the distance were sucked dry and how many fish died when the river dried out? It was nothing like the village I went to in 2011. Still as we left the village all families were outside enjoying each others' company and happily waving to us as we departed. Children were playing and everyone looked so happy. It made me double check being down when I home, when clearly these people were struggling to survive with little to no water, yet never frowned or complained. We finally arrived to the hotel after driving around the tight streets of the night market in a big van for over an hour trying to find our hotel, which happened to be down make-shift alleyways. Everyone was a little hangry and annoyed waiting to get to a restaurant and eat. After enjoying our meal ad finishing our events another strange event occurred, Punleu's glass he was drinking from exploded in his mouth. After confirming all was ok It had been an ironic moment as it explained our day. We simply wanted a drink and to enjoy Cambodia when all plans for the day went a rye, but after the cup exploded it was a laughable moment and we were just glad to be enjoying each others' company with friendly faces of the people always surrounded us.