Bummed

So I'm bummed...for purely selfish reasons, and should probably get over it. Basically I every 3 months we have to do "visa runs" to borders of different neighboring countries around Thailand to renew our work-visas. I only get to do two, my first 'run' was to Laos in November and my second was SUPPOSED to be to Cambodia....my ultimate destination/bucket-list stop since I got here! There's supposed to be a really great mission just out side of Siem Riep that has a great media-center that we were going to live at for about a week or so, BUT Cambodia it seems was not in the cards. This week we were supposed to buy our Visa's for exiting Thailand at the embassy here in Bangkok but we were stopped by CIVIL WAR. There's this landmark temple near the border (where Laura Croft was filmed actually) that's always been disputed territory, who made it the Thais or the Cambodians (chicken or the egg as far as history's concerned...its probably a hybrid temple). So apparently just recently it was proved Cambodian, but after re-possession they found artillery shells and damage to one of the walls. Even more drama is going on because of course its a well known religious landmark so many of the monks and worshipers from Thailand would have to relocate. We thought for a while of just FLYING over the border but of course, last time this fight happened on the same scale (its kind of a regular decade event) they blew up the Thai embassy - where we would be going. Even normally Cambodia is a seriously rough place, hearing gunfire in the major cities is common and you're able to buy landmines for close to 3 dollars...somehow, even with all that negative I'm STILL depressed about missing out on seeing it :( I have some consolation temple pictures for you guys though, its here in Bangkok, but I thought it was gorgeous.