Tuesday, March 18, 2003

The Island - Day 1

Stupid cats, howled all night, especially when the sun was starting to come up. Geeze!

We got up about 8:30, sat around, played cards, the lady made us some Laos coffee, then Court and I bathed in the lake with our swim suits (no running water, obviously), then about 11:15, lady made us some breakfast, an absolutely superb omelette.

We all went swimming, and swam between 3 islands, and were totally wiped when we were done. We also had a mud bath in the mud around the island. The shoreline is not sandy on this lake, it's more either rocky, or soft, mushy mud. Then the lady told us we can have a paddle boat if we want, and gave us a couple of paddles, and showed us the boat, so we tried to paddle, but kept going in circles, and Sapir and Jasmine kept arguing about whose fault it was, it was quite funny. I'm sure the locals were watching laughing their heads off at us. We finally figured it out, and we made it to the island, and finally back, it took us about two hours, then Court and I bathed again (to get the mud out of us).

Before we did our swimming, the lady asked us if we'd like fish for supper, we said sure, then she asked us if we'd like some pineapple as well, we said sure, so she want to the market to get provisions.

AFter our water fun, we sat around, talked, played cards, and waited for supper. There's not much to do on this island. Courtney was so hungry, she felt like she was going to die, and she's pissed off and upset, and won't stop complaining, because she's so hungry. She needs food NOW.

Supper finally came about 6:30, and WOW, amazing supper. It was beef (I think it was pork, Sapir says beef), but it was awesome, so meaty, and we had steamed rice and tomatoes. It was easily the tastiest meal we've had in Laos.

We played cards tonight, Court was really tired, so she went to bed about 9:00, I went about 9:30.

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