Camodia motobike tour - Day 6

Today we made our way to Kampong Thom - and it rained almost ALL DAY. Not just a drizzly seattle rain, either. Buckets of full on monsoon rain. Whatever posessed me to make this trip in the rainy season, you know, when it RAINS!!! I've never been so wet in my life, but at least it's a warm rain. And it feels better than the blistering hot sun. We stopped for awhile in a little village to have a drink and wait it out, and there was the cutest little girl (probably about 5 or 6) who was playing with me. She's hide around a corner, peek out, and giggle and run away when she saw me look at her. I pulled my camera and got a really cute picture of her. After she saw that she could look at the screen, she wanted more and more pictures, so I shot a few good ones of her. The rain subsided a bit when we got to the Ker Kek temple complex. There was a swarm of giggly girls and one boy herding them with a stick. They giggled even more when I got the stick from him and started poking at him with it to let him see how it felt ;) Heang picked his favorite curly haired little girl and kept scaring her and making her laugh. We gave out the last 18 or so books and pens. They're all so polite and grateful. I'm just about templed out, though, so while Heang poked around the ruins, I learned a few Khmer words. I remember that the word for rain is "plean". We made it to Kampong Thom for the night - nice little town. On the way in, we passed food stalls selling huge platers of roasted tarantulas. I was so tweaked out that I made Heang take my camera to get pictures. Even looking at the photos give me the willies.