My Saturday was filled with a number of little goings on. It started with a delightful lunch with some lovely people at Daughters and then some pampering, with a manicure for me and a pedicure for Nathalie. If you can't spoil yourself on weekends then that is a very sad state of affairs.
However as we were consuming our lunch the heavens poured down on the roads of Phnom Penh, making a rather soggy journey to my next destination - to find a friend’s house amongst the giant puddles covering the streets to collect some hand-me-down kitchenware on behalf of another friend. Being too cheap and enjoying my independence far too much to hire a tuktuk I had brought along my giant travelling backpack to load up all the goodies I would find.
Once all loaded up (and probably destroying my manicure in the process) I saddled my little moto and began the journey home. The problem was I had to change my course a number of times due to serve traffic and teems of water. It certainly wasn't your ideal driving conditions out there. Gotta love the monsoon.
Because I was well off route to my home I decided to pop past my favourite bubble tea place. Of course I had to explain to the sweet manager the giant backpack on my back in my poor Khmer, but she was delighted as always in my attempts to speak the language. I basically told her, as well as the other staff, that my friend was going back to Canada and he has plates - haha really do need to work on my terrible language skills.
Once safely home, with a stop at the petrol station for yet another explanation of my huge bag get up, and the ability to dry off I sipped at my green tea delight and just enjoyed the remainder of my Saturday.
