Sihanoukville

We caught the overnight bus from Battambang to Phnom Penh, got to Phnom Penh around 4 AM and had to wait until 8 AM for a bus to Sihanoukville. Fiona and Brenda slept at the bus station. Tons of Cambodians around starting at about 7am. People selling snacks and bread and what not.  Not as crazy getting off the bus as it was in Battambang, only a few people trying to get our business in Sihanoukville. We took a $6 cab to Monkey Republic and both us and Brenda and Fiona got rooms with a double and single bed. Ate lunch at Monkey Republic, showered and got ready to go to the beach but just as we were walking out of our room it started pouring rain. We hung out at the guesthouse instead.

The Navy guys and a tower of beer

When we checked in we each got a token for a free beer so we started to drink there. Some guys from the US navy showed up and hung out with us. We all chatted and shared their tower of beer, played kings, they kept buying towers of beer, and we didn't pay for any drinks except for a couple of rounds. The navy guys had to leave at 11:30 to get back to their ship, so we went out to the bars on the beach.  It was craziness. Free shots, neon paint that Brenda got everywhere, dancing.

Brenda

The next day we spent recovering.  Met Jamie, a guy Brenda had met while in Laos.  We all went to the beach to chill out but were immediately surrounded by tons of kids all trying to sell us bracelets or give pedicures or tweeze our leg hair.  The beach had wooden sun beds set up and was lined with restaurants so if you ordered food or drinks from a restaurant, they let you use the wooden sun beds for free.  We walked all the way to the end of the beach, sat down in a circle and all the kids we were trying to avoid came and sat around us and wouldn't leave us alone.  Finally everyone except Katie went in the water so they left.  Stayed at the beach for a while but kind of drizzly.

Ate lunch at just a little restaurant back from the beach.  Walked into town to see if there was anything to see but we were too early for the night market and there weren't any real shopping places other than that.

Had dinner around 10 and then headed to Utopia, a terrible backpacker bar that was filled with Cambodian prostitutes and obnoxious backpackers, but good people watching.  Saw a couple ladyboys - weren't sure if that was a Thailand only thing.  Went to the beach bars again and sat at a different one.  Talked with the two bartenders, both Isreali and working just for the night for free drinks. Went to the next bar when the first one stopped playing music, around 2.  Chatted more and met some Irish/British guys.  When they shut the lights off at 3, Fiona and Brenda went to Utopia with the Irish guys and Andy and I went to bed.  There really isn't too much to do in S-ville except party.