Berk’s Blog

The hotel is decked out for Christmas, where we just enjoyed Christmas Eve dinner. The locals must get Christmas Eve and Christmas confused because everyone was wishing us a Merry Christmas today.  We’re not like *some* Westerners that would take it upon themselves to correct or even chastise the hosts for getting the dates mixed up.  Hell, we didn’t know that the full moon is a Buddhist holiday, so turnabout is fair play.

Christmas (Eve) dinner consisted of an appetizer of Pumpkin Crab Soup or some sort of potato veg soup, a mix of a half-dozen salad choices including sesame noodle and bbq chicken, entrees of fish & rice noodles, cashew chicken and veg, plus a carving station with roast turkey and gravy.  Not quite Mom’s traditional turkey and mashed potatoes, but quite good anyway.

During the start of dinner, we were serenaded with carols such as White Christmas (see last post for WTF factor) and some sort of Christmas polka that seemed to get repeated every second or third song. They must have peeked at my last name, so points for extra hospitality.

That was followed by perhaps the world’s worst mix of “dancing” music – no more Christmas tunes (unless you think Madonna’s Like a Virgin was about Mother Mary). We were invited to dance, but hit the road instead. We have a 0430 wakeup call so that we can watch sunrise at Angkor Wat, this time with a new driver. Wish us luck!!