Saturday, in the park.

As we have now entered our 11th month of marriage, Josh and I officially declared yesterday as perhaps the “most fun Saturday” (we are good with titles) we have experienced in Phnom Penh.

It was a combination of a lazy morning (which for us these days means sleeping in until 7), working out with our fancy home gym, complete with Jillian Michaels’ exercise DVD (she will scare you into fitness), a Target mat, two real weights for Josh, and two makeshift weights for me (also known as a large bottle of Body Wash and another large bottle of Lotion).

We had lunch at the Java with their fabulous & reasonably priced sandwiches, followed by a trip to "City Mart," the magical land of high priced t-shirts, exercise equipment that I don’t understand, and rows and rows of flip flops not made for the feet of a 6 foot 3 American man (Josh, not me, just to clarify).

We perused a sale at Monument Books, I caught up on some pertinent Hollywood news courtesy of their $13.00 magazines (terribly reasonable), and we headed to T&Coffee World, our favorite little cafe with free wireless and cheap, wonderful fruit plates. Josh studied the Bible while I did equally important research involving a link I found on Women's Health for 50 smoothie recipes!

We both learned a great deal from our studies.

Then we did something we don't normally do in Phnom Penh, and that is to go take pictures. It ended up being quite fun and allowed us to incur a fair amount of stares from strangers as well as engage in some good conversation with "Ben" who is in Phnom Penh for the Khmer New Year (a week long celebration where most of Phnom Penh shuts down as people travel to their home provinces).
We hung out in a park, went to the waterfront, and enjoyed being touristy in a city that has very much become familiar to us (so much so that we overlook a lot of the photos we'd like to have).

And sometimes, after all the picture taking, you drive to a great little Napalese restaurant for dinner, only to find it torn apart for renovation.

When they still refuse to serve you after multiple attempts to get past their front half-door (hypothetically speaking), you settle for an intriguing small-ish Indian Restaurant next door.

And you do not regret your decision.

We were treated to an amazing dinner consisting of complimentary lemonade drinks followed by dishes of tender chicken cubes cooked with tomatoes, capsicum, and onions. Combine this with Roti (my new favorite thanks to Emily!) and enough spice to make you cave and ask for yogurt (also a trick I learned from Emily) and you have yourself an absolutely wonderful meal.

We topped off our evening with a trip to Pencil Mart grocery store (this is our form of entertainment in Phnom Penh) and "Happy Sundaes" at Swensen's :)

We officially ended the day with my first near-viewing (and I say "near" because the DVD skipped in parts, though I think I was able to grasp the general story line :) of "Nacho Libre." Yet another example of cinema as its finest.