More food, more family and let's compare me to Day.

I finally am in Sihanoukville and I feel super happy and full of spirit. Well, I will start off with the beginning of the day and then get into the parts you want to hear about. I got to bed at around 3am this morning, woke up at 6am. I felt like crap. I was so groggy and I felt terrible. The thing that saved me was the bus ride. I was able to sleep for a good 3 -4 hours, passed out, but there was a number of times where my head would tilt into the aisle and I would surprise myself and then fall asleep again. Rothany and I got some pretty awesome seats, right at the front with the most possible leg room, so I could stretch out my legs and sleep. After about 5 hours or so, we reached Sihanoukville, but the downside was that it was pouring like horses and pigs. It was pretty bad. I have a feeling that the whole weekend will be like this, but that is the rainy seasons. No beaches? I guess it might be a sign that we should work and not play this weekend. Well, we arrived and took a tuk tuk to our guest house. It is called Sea Side Villa, I have a feeling that I got the name wrong again, I called it Sea Village Side before. I never realized how hilly this part of the region is, it is literally all hills, we kept going up and down and the pouring rain did not help. Not one bit. Our guest house was next to Serendipity Beach and the road to it was non existent. It was a dirt road and combine with rain, a muddy one. We got 3/4 down the road to our hotel, but the tuk tuk driver could not make it any farther, so I had to grabbed all my goods for my Grandma and bring it to the guest house. Luckily, it was not too far, but the rain was not fun. Well, after we got settle in our new home for the next couple nights. I decided to call my Uncle Songli. Ahh, I was super nervous, butterflies were literally in my stomach, not only in my stomach, they were lost or a tornado had hit them and they didn't know what to do, but I dialed his number and .... no pick up. I was feeling, oh no, maybe they do not what to see me. I decided to wait a little bit and thought about calls don't always go through here. I called again.... it rang for a long time and I was getting nervous again and then it happened...." Sokun, Hello??". I was super excited and I told him that I had just arrived and he asked if I wanted to come see family and I said, yes! He came about a half hour later and picked me up around two. I was nervous beforehand. I waited downstairs with Ne and I told her about how nervous I was and that I could not help. I just thought about, what am I going to talk about? Is this going to be awkward? What if they don't like me? Oh, that 30 minutes was the longest 30 minutes of my life.
A black lexus SUV pulled down the street, I look outside and because it was so far, I didn't assume anything. I got a called from my uncle and he says that he is near my guest house, but he is not sure which one. I go out and wave my hands in the air, yes, it was that black lexus SUV. Oh, it was so great to see my Uncle Songli in real life. I have seen so many pictures, but he has a similar face to my mom. He was so nice and he really wanted me to see all the family here. First, he took me to my Aunt Li who owned a resturaunt across from a gas station. We got there and I went in and said hello. It was such a weird feeling to be meeting family that you have heard of, but never seen. I spent about ten minutes there and it was fun to see all her kids and her adorable grandson, who was super attached to me. He started crying when I left. So cute.
Now, it was time to go to my Uncle Songli's place where my grandma was staying. As we pulled up into his house. My uncle pointed out and said, " There is Grandma." I looked, but I couldn't see. He pulled into the garage and I got out. I walked to get the food in the back seat and then into the house. I then saw a cute, old woman and I recognize her from the many pictures. I saw how much she resembled my mom. Oh, it was chills seeing her. She came up and said how happy she was too finally meet her. She told me, as well as my cousin and my uncle how I did not look like anything in the picture and I got skinnier. They also commented on how dark I was because to my surprise I was darker than all of them. Crazy. Renee must be black then.
I got to meet my whole uncle's family which consisted of three kids, two young brothers, a sister and also Jin Long, but he was in Phnom Penh finishing up his semester.
I sat there next to my grandmother and we started talking about how my trip was and where I have been. My Uncle also made me stir fried noodles and he was giving me drinks up the gazoo. I spent almost 7 hours at my Uncle's. It was super cute to talk to my grandma about my mom. She also knew my Dad's side really well. She talked about my Grandparents on my Dad's side and about how my Tha (Grandfather on my dad's) was from Kampuchea Krom and how he had an accent. Oh, and before I forget, they made so many comparisons to me and my brother. I am a lot darker than he is, I speak Khmer better than and the rest of my siblings, I am smaller than him, the list kept going on, but they were all positives on my end.
My Grandma and I ended watching Chinese soap operas and then they turned into watching Khmer music videos of Britney Spears, Black Eye Peas and Pitbull, super bad, but it was fun. My cousin seemed like they liked me a lot, they surrounded me and even one of them wanted to take a picture of me on their phone. Super cute.
Oh, and more food, they ended up making dinner and feeding me beer and water. Then apples and longan. So much food. Way too much food.
It was a wonderful start to this weekend and it was super cute when my Grandmother asked me to stay and sleep with her at my Uncle's. I might tomorrow actually. This is the only opportunity to see my Grandma and spend all the time to make up the lost of spending time with Grandparents when I was younger. I am going to hang out with my family again tomorrow and I am super excited.
Oh yeah, I also met my Uncle Jumran, who came later and he took me back to the guest house on his moto, but beforehand we stopped by his house so I could meet his family. They were super nice and the kids were so cute. My Uncle Jumran is really cool, he gave me the advice to go out at night, but only with him. So I could be safe, unlike my Uncle Songli who told me not to go out at night and only day time. Super funny. After I had arrived back from the visiting them, he gave me a call to let me know if I need anything to just call him and he will be there to help in a jiffy.
Ahh, I had to write down what happened today because it felt amazing and I am so blessed to have family here. But, it is reality time and I have to get back to work. Yes, I am working on my mini vacation, but I will let you know how the rest of this weekend goes. Oh, btw, facebook pictures of my family from today will be up.