Pizza experience!!

This awful, plastic, fake looking pizza cost us $10. While being here on the trip, we have missed pizza and have tried to get it at a few places. Since last weekend we celebrated our Anniversary by staying at a nice hotel for 3 nights, we thought the pizza would be better the last night we stayed there. The other food they have had was amazing and all delicious. Spencer decides to order pizza the last night and get some other things for room service. First of all, the other food we ordered came and we had to sign to get the pizza to come. So we started eating the other food, anxious to see how the pizza would turn out. It finally arrives with a knock on the door, Spencer answers it and takes the pizza and puts it on the kitchen counter instead of the table we are sitting at since it is full of all the other food plates. We eat our appetizers we order and he goes to get his pizza. Low and behold is this fake, rubbery cheese pizza that is burnt in front of us. He takes the first bite and it tastes awful. Not only does the cheese bounce, but you can left up all the ingredients and see the bread part underneath in one clean lift. Of course, Spencer being still hunger, eats about 2 and a half pieces before he calls it quits. It was the most disgusting pizza I have ever seen. All I know is that we are going to be ordering pizza soon after we get back into the states.

Luckily a few days later we found another pizza place. We decide to try it because Spencer is craving a decent pizza from the last episode. It wasn't that bad and was probably the best pizza we have had here. You can tell the dough was homemade and I think the only thing they are still bad at is the sausage and the cheese. Don't worry it wasn't rubber or fake looking, they just don't know the right way to use cheese since they never use it in their own food. O well, it is still good for now and they also DELIVER!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!! I know that we will be ordering that again from our apartment next time.

Anniversary!!

I am so happy that I get to spend the rest of eternity with my one and only sweetheart. He writes me notes everyday telling me the different reasons why he loves me, tickles me to death, kisses me, hold my hand, cuddles next to me no matter where we are, tells me he loves me more then 10 times a day, comes to my rescue if I am ever hurt or need help, looks at me with dearing, caring eyes, and so much more. There is no one else I would rather spend the forever with. No one is as lucky as I am. I am proud to be called Mrs. Kaitlin Malley. I am so glad I can keep holding his hand forever just like on our wedding day. I also love to look into your eyes and I can see the love you have for me and all the happiness there is between us. I will always look at you the way I did on our happiest day ever. Our wedding day! I will love you forever Spencer. Thank you for the wonder last best two years of my life, and I look forward to the future and to grow old with you. I am yours and only yours forever. I love you!

Retry on Pictures

Angkor Wat and other temple pictures we visited in Siem Reap!! As well as my beautiful bouquet of flowers from our 2nd year Anniversary!!

Too much to talk about!!

There is too much to talk about and catch you up on. So I am going to just put up pictures for the past few weeks and then I will start talking about things from now on. I will try to not neglect it and get it like this again since there are so many fun adventures over here. Yesterday was Spencer and I's 2nd year anniversary!!! (and my birthday!!) It is amazing how time just flies and then it just pops up so fast. We have had a blast being married the last two years and he is the best husband and man I ever known. He takes such great care of me and is so sweet to me all the time.

He made me some pancakes for brunch during my internship break of two hours. They were sooooooo delicious and I totally miss American breakfast of waffles, o I love waffles, bacons, eggs, hashbrowns, french toast, ham, sausage, and all that yumminess! So those pancakes were to die for. I did come home to a huge bouquet of flowers, and will probably be the biggest ones I ever get, since in the US they would cost $200 or so bucks. O they are gorgeous and smell soooo good. It fills up our apartment, and I love to see them/smell them every time I walk in. Then he surprised me with a new gemstone Alexandrite necklace. It is beautiful and I was so excited to get it because I have always wanted that gemstone since it used to be my birthstone until it became to rare to get and turned pearl into my birthstone now. I love how it changes colors from purple to red to green to blue green in different lights. It's really cool and you did a great job honey!!

We went out to dinner with the other BYU students here and had ice cream cake. I got chicken fingers and fries, o I do miss Chick-fil-a or Zaxby's or chipotle. It was all soo good. I didn't think I was going to like it as much as my dad's mint chcolate chip. But it was pretty good. It had three layers of strawberry, vanilla, and chocolate ice cream with yellow cake on the bottom. YUMMMMMY!!!!

So I had a great day of being pampered and loved. We actually just celebrated my birthday mainly and are going to celebrate our anniversary for real on the weekend. Probably go to a nice hotel and we are going to get some fake cambodian wedding pictures taken. I am so excited and will definitely post them on the blog.

my picture are being dumb and wont upload, I will try again later to do it sorry:(

More pictures (I'm so behind)

I will add descriptions later since I just wrote all the other one!

What I promised!!

AHHHH!! I'm so behind on my blogging and there is so much to tell. I will have to tell you in different posts because so much has happened over here and we have been so busy. So here is the crazy tree dancing story. We went to one of the host families engagement party. There son is marrying a wonderful girl. It was really interesting to see. They put all of this food out and had to put this red symbol on everything and had a ceremony that symbolized them giving away their daughter and accepting it. Kind of more like giving permission to allow their son to marry the other couples daughter. It was so much fun though. We had the ceremony and then we ate bascially all day. It was delicious food. My favorite was the fish they had. It was sooooo good and they cook their sea food way better then anyplace I have been to over in the US. They also had chicken feet and other parts of the chicken to eat, some type of salad thing with pork, vegetables, shrimp, and then they had some noodle beef dish as well.O man, I don't think I have eaten that much. Of course they all drank, and asked us many times if we wanted any and spencer politely told them we don't drink alcohol and they were all ok and fine with it. But, they were so nice and loved us being there. They showed us how to dance Cambodian style and we danced probably for 2 hours. Not straight, but going to sit and eat or drink more water or juice they gave us and then they asked us to dance some more. I loved going and seeing that experience, because Cambodian weddings are so expensive and very extravagant. They have to go and stay with the brides family, before the engagment for a period of time. Then they have to have the engagement ceremony, and it all depends on the situation, but it can take up to another year to get married. Those ceremonies, the marriage ones, last ALL DAY LONG. I mean from 7:00 am to 12 pm just partying and having fun.

I though this was really interesting as well. The men all sat outside and ate the food, while the women served them and took care of everything, while the men just drank and eat a lot. They said that since the men work all day and make the money to give to the women, its the women's job to take care of the home and cook the food. It was the men's turn to relax and just party, while the women did everything. I don't know how I feel about that, because it just seems like they women never get a chance to relax like that, but maybe they have a special women party. Spencer isn't sure, and neither and I.

We went to the national museum over here. They had beautiful statues, paintings, and different rock work that was dated back before the Angorian period. I am not sure wh en excatly that was but I know that it was pretty old. IT was fascinating to see the different avatars and vishnus they depicted. Everyone would of loved it if you were here, although it wasn't quite as gorgeous and awesome as the Metropolitan in New York, but still cool.

We then went to Wat Phnom which is an old buddist temple, they are reconstructing it, and we didn't see any buddhist there, but it was where Phnom Penh originally started. It was gorgeous there. I felt like I was in another place than the city with all the trees and flowers that surrounded the temple. There were even monkeys. They were so cute and they would come up right to you and take the food you gave them right out of your hand. We had this little guy come up to us and he took all of what Spencer had. It was like three full things of food that we were going to share together to give to other monkeys, but that little guy was a sneeke bugger and just took it all for himself. IT was soooooooo funny because one minute he was so cute and innocent and then next he just ripped it out of Spencer's hands. We laughed so hard and someone even got it on tape. We will get that later.Then we walked around and went to that museum as well and learned how Phnom Penh came about. I don't know if that was true but it was interesting. They had some village old lady see a huge tree in the river and made the villagers get it out. They then found a buddha and other four statues, can't remember what it was, in there and decided to take it up on a hill, which the hill got bigger and worshipped them and then they all evolved from there. So that was fun to see all that. They even had some small little people, barbie sized to show the different depictions and the time line of how things came about.

We then went to a TKO fight. I never thought I would ever go or see a boxing match in real life, but we went to one. IT was pretty brutal, but most of the time they were just hugging each other. Not much punching going on. It was fun, but I don't think I will ever go and see one again.

We went to a olympic stadium, they use it for soccer tournaments and for some other things I am not really sure of but there was this one Cambodian guy who squeezed through the gate just to get into the soccer game for free. It was crazy because I don't even know how he fit hes fat head through, but He was sure skinny enough to make it through. We were just walking by and saw him half way through already, and we just watched all amazed. In the end, we clapped for him and cheered. It was funny and I had no idea how he did it, but he made it through!

The Squatter

So today we went to a waterfall a little outside of Sihanoukeville. It was really fun although I got my swim trunks all dirty. I was scared at one point because we saw this Cambodian guy swimming around with goggles and and spear, trying to catch fish. The only time I have seen this before was on an episode of River Monsters, where a man in Thailand was fishing for a fish called the Snakefish, a type of fish that has been accused of killing humans. Anyway, hopefully that wasn’t the same kind of fish this guy was going for.

After swimming in the the waterfall for a little bit, we had some lunch, and as always happens after I eat, it was time to go to the bathroom. When I arrived at the outhouse, I opened the door and saw that the toilet was in the floor. I had never seen one like this before, but thought is was rather non-hygienic. But nature was calling so I decided that before proceeding I should wipe down the toilet seat with the toilet paper that I had brought in my backpack. (We bring it with us everywhere as most places don’t have any.) After wiping down the seat I sat down on the toilet with my legs in the shape of a “V”. I thought to myself, wow this position is not very conducive to the task at hand. I also wondered how people with butts smaller than mine, (basically all Cambodians) ever sit on these without falling in. Needless to say I did my business and got out of there.

It wasn’t till just a little bit ago, when I was complaining about how nasty the bathrooms were, that I learned that these were the infamous “squatters”. It all makes sense now. Of course I was the laughing stock of the group at the dinner table and the rest of the night, and probably for the foreseeable future- the man who sat on the squatter.