After such a late night last night, we decided today should be a relaxing day. As Millie had named them, a hangout day.

She slept in, hallelujah, until 9 and then we had breakfast downstairs at our hotel. We shared the buffet with 7 Australian boys, I assume on a gap year. One had road rash so bad that he still had an IV in his arm from his hospital visit. I’m guessing this is from a scooter accident. Everywhere we’ve been in Southeast Asia has had groups of similar Aussie boys. White, tall socks, Solomon sneakers, loudly making fun of each other at all times.

After breakfast we played in the room a bit and then went down to the pool. We swam together and she spent some time playing alone with her little playmobil people. These continue to be the most played with toy of the trip.

She ordered lunch and got a watermelon juice. Just like with Ice Cream Friday, we had to put some limits on juice. So now there’s “Tuesday Juice Day” and “Thursday Juice Day”.

At 4pm we finally decided to venture out. We walked through Siem Reap and towards the river. We sat and had a drink beside it while deciding what to do for dinner.

Nick spotted two people who had been on our visit to elephants, a very sweet grandfather / granddaughter duo from Michigan. They both did Peace Corps in Asia (60 years apart) and are back to visit together. He is 86 which amazed and impressed us. We spent a couple of hours catching up with them and getting to know them more. Millie and Kata hit it off and spent some time drawing. At the end, Millie asked “Can we hang out again? What’s your number?” I neglected to get a photo of all of us together.

Once we split from them we found a busy spot and decided to stop to eat. The lady asked if we wanted the food spicy and I did the universal “so-so” hand signal. She took this as “no” and delivered our food to us with zero heat. It is always such a hard thing to communicate, like yes we want spicy, but we don’t want to blow our butts off.

We walked back through Pub street, which Millie requested because it looked “fancy”. It was the opposite of fancy with lots of big bars and clubs and drunk foreigners. There were ladies on the street selling various trinkets and Millie got very upset when we wouldn’t get her a ballon covered in LED lights. I couldn’t get out of there fast enough.

We didn’t see or do much today, which feels like such a gift on this trip. We have 5 more days here, and flexibility to extend if we wanted to. I’m so grateful for flexibility.