The whole family is headed to Phnom Penh to obtain a heap of documents that will be exchanged for one document, and then we will go home.
Trying Not To Get My Hopes Up 🤞
We've got the washing machine in the back of the tuk-tuk with us on this trip, and it's due for a main drive bearing replacement and a new rubber door seal. We now have a routine that involves reaching Kampong Chhnang where we stay one night in the Samrongsen Wedding Reception Hall. This town is 350km from our house, and it's a perfect combination of the furthest I like to drive in a day, has a clean and relatively affordable place to sleep for a night, plus a place with an edible veggie fried rice.
My wife and I are hoping to get married again, but this time by Cambodian law because foreign marriages aren't accepted by the government here. I technically don't meet the requirements to marry my wife here, but we are foofing some documents and have a man on the inside, but I'm still not getting my hopes up until I see results. Well, either way we still bought some boiled corn along the road and embraced some of my Indiana culture while traveling 58km/h.
We Have Weird Hotel Tastes 👰
I have a weird Cambodian hotel habit that I've passed onto my family, and it basically involves staying at places that aren't exclusively hotels. In Cambodia wedding parties generally take place all-inclusive places that have a ballroom or reception hall, most often several of them, and overnight rooms available for guests too drunk to drive or who have come from far away and need a place to sleep and rest up. I like renting rooms at these places because usually they are cheaper than hotel rooms of a similar quality and there are almost never any guests because the big focus is on catering the parties.
At this particular wedding hall in Kampong Chnnang the reception hall and nightly rooms are separated from each other, unlike in the capital where usually the rooms are located directly above the reception hall. This night was the first time I have seen a party in the reception hall next to our usual place in Kampong Chhnang, but even though it's loud and a bit annoying, the pros outweigh the cons, wedding reception halls are always better than hotels, so there's your Cambodian travel hack my friends.
Monkey-B & I marveled at the party for a while, then I asked her to go and hustle up some snacks. She quickly refused, then ran back in the room and tried to hide behind the curtain to scare me as I came in the door. Her fateful error was failing to realize that I can see her through the window from outside in the darkness, and her plan was a failure. I will always be the best scarer in this family, this rookie has so much to learn.
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