Dress #26

On Monday (7/28), I wore my pink wrap skirt with white flowers.  It's summer and time to bust out all the skirts.  I literally just ran errands all day but it was hot and I wanted to wear a skirt.  I had taken a sick day from work for my doctor's appointments.  I had my yearly check up and I had to see my other doctor for a check up on my arm.  My first appointment was at 12pm and my second at 4pm.  Joe offered to go with me and drive me to my appointments which was nice.  So even though we were mostly waiting in doctor's offices, we did spend the day together.  After my first appointment we had lunch at Baja Fresh.  I don't think it's the best food, but one of Joe's friends got us a gift card there as a wedding present so we figured we may as well use it up.

I got my wrap skirt from Cambodia.  My friend and I took a trip to Thailand with Friendly Planet that had an excursion to Angkor Wat Cambodia.  It was really hot in Thailand.  Our tour guide told us Thailand had three seasons, hot, hotter and hottest.  We were there during hot season and it was sweltering.  We had brought shorts but the problem was that we weren't allowed to enter any temples with our knees or shoulders visible.  It became excruciating after a week.  Cambodia was basically the same.  Our tour guide warned us about having to be covered to go into Angkor Wat so I had to buy a skirt.  The night before our day trip out there we went to Pub Street in Siem Reap.  Pub Street is basically the bar/shopping/party area near our hotel.  It was crowded and full of tourists, mostly South Africans and Australians.  There was a ton of clothing stands there.  Every one offered deals if you bought two of whatever it was you were buying.  My friend bought two dresses and I bought a wrap skirt and a dress.

Pub Street was really fun and we ended up going there every night.  We were only in Siem Reap for three days but it felt like a full week.  Each day we went to three temples and had lunch with the tour group, then got massages and ended the day drinking at Pub Street.  Our first night at Pub Street we got fish pedicures at a place that gave us free beer with the service.  You basically put your feet in a tank of fish that eat all the dead skin off.  It tickled and felt like a cat licking your feet.  You started in a tank with bigger fish, then moved to a tank of smaller fish.  My feet honestly did feel a lot softer after it.  We went to a bar called Angkor What? that had neon lights and a DJ.  We ate at a restaurant called Khmer House which had delicious local cuisine.  Everything was super cheap and they accept US dollars for everything so we didn't even need to convert any currency.  Even the ATMS dispense American dollars.  Beers only cost 50 cents to a dollar so we drank a lot.  It was a great place to vacation.  It had the perfect balance of touristy and relaxing things to do at an affordable price.  Seeing Angkor Wat was amazing.  I wasn't really familiar with Cambodia and didn't have any expectations for the trip but it definitely exceeded everything I thought it would be.  My friend wants to go back really badly.  I'm not sure if I'll ever return or not but it was definitely worth the trip and it's an experience I'll remember for the rest of my life.

The skirt doesn't have any tags or info at all.  It's basically a long piece of fabric that wraps around the waist with two ties to tighten or loosen it.  There's no elastic bands or anything.  I wonder if it could be used as a shawl or wrap and not just a skirt but I never tried to wear it that way.  I wore it with my purple Gap tank top. 100% cotton.  Size S.  Made in India.