Siem Reap, Cambodia

So our 3 day pass for Angkor finished yesterday. This morning we tearfully dropped Lily off at the airport in Siem Reap. What to do with our time now?
As for Angkor, again the temples were amazing. Definitely something that We're glad we got to experience. We saw this small temple named Banteay Srei which was about 30 minutes outside of the rest. The drive itself was worth the trip. The road we drove down was lined with houses and rice paddies. Very picturesque. The temple itself was tiny in comparison to most, but the bas reliefs were some of the best. Unfortunately, we weren't able to see half of them. This small, out of the way, temple was the only one in Angkor that had portions of it roped off for preservation (kind of like we do everywhere in the States). Even at Angkor Wat we could climb anywhere we wanted.
We learned bunches about Hinduism. The temple guidebook that we bought helped us decipher the carvings that were everywhere about the temples.
Did you know: that apsaras (celestial beings that were sensual rewards for gods and heroes) were created as a byproduct of the 'churning of the sea of milk.' The 'churning of the sea of milk' is from the Mahabharata. The devas (gods) and asuras (demons) tug on Vasuki, a naga (5 or 7 headed snake), who is rapped around Mt. Mandara, supported on the back of Kurma (the turtle or 2nd avatar or incarnate of Visnu) in order to create amrita or elixir of immortality.
By the end of our 3 day temple tour, we finally had a bit of a grasp on the most famous of the Hindu stories.