After supper last night, we ran into Oren and Ren (or Ron or Ran or Run or something like that...from Israel), and we went to a pub and had a Lao Beer for 9000 kip ($1.20 CDN or so). This is no little 300ml beer, this is a BIG bottle of beer, 650ml. Cheap booze here. AFter that we started to head to a disco, then Courtney and I decided we should head back to our guest house because we had an 11:00 PM curfew (they locked the doors).
We got up late, about 10:00AM. They were supposed to have our laundry done at 10:00, but didn't, so we had to wait until 11:00 for them to finish our laundry, then pack and check out. We found another place for $6.00/night (US), shared bath, but still nice. But we know we can still find cheaper.
Went and had lunch at a balcony restaurant overlooking the Nam Khan river, very nice view. AFter that we just walked around, ran into people that were on the boat with us. When we met up with Oren and Ren, we decided to meet up with them at the market at 6:00 and we'd go to the beach and have a fire and whatever. We also made arrangements with them that we'd all share a tuk-tuk to the waterfall tomorrow.
Very hot and humid today.
We went back to the guest house and just vegged for a couple of hours.
About 6:00, we headed to the night market and partook of the vendors food offerings. We started with chicken on a stick, then had sticky rice on a stick (which was actually not very good, IMHO), then I had a chocolate-coconut danish, then I had 2 big waffles with sugar sprinkled on them. Also exchanged some money. I exchanged 1000 baht, which got me 248,000 kip. $1.00 CDN will fetch you 6820 kip.
Courtney swore off of sweets 3 days ago, and to show support for her, I told her I'd not eat any sweets either. Fruit snacks for the rest of the month! We both caved today, she had 2 sugar covered waffles as well. They are SOOOO good! An old man makes them on the street in the market.
We met up with Oren and Ren, and a bunch of others, they were having supper and a beer (or two or three) at the market. We joined them, then went down to a beach on the Nam Khan river, and had a bonfire. Josee (from Quebec) brought her guitar. There were probably 20-30 people there, including one guy who had HUGE dreads. Rumour is, he hadn't cut his hair in 7 years.
Another older French guy joined us later and as I was chatting with him, he remarked that the US had started their bombing campaign against Iraq today. He had seen it on Thai TV. We were shocked, of course, even though we knew it was coming, but still it's a shock when it actually happens.
Court and I left about 1:40. The guest house has an 11:30 curfew, they lock the front gates of the property at 11:30. He told us if we get back after 11:30, just ring the buzzer at the gate. So, Court and I felt really bad about waking anybody up by buzzing, so we decided to jump the fence. I got over fine, but Court got her pants stuck on the spikes on the top of the fence, and near fell off, so I had to stand under her and let her stand on top of me as she made her way over the wall. We did get over ok, and sneaked up to our room. It was fun!!!
We heard some stories today about muggings in Vang Nieng, apparently some tourists got mugged yesterday. Also, apparently some bandits were shooting at busses on teh highway to Vang Vieng. Cool! Court and I wanna head there right away! Talk about excitement!
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