Sauna and Massage

The name of this guest house is Pathoumphone Guest House.

We got up early, about 7:45, showered and had breakfast. Went to the morning market, lots and lots of clothes, textiles and cheap Chinese electronics. Then went to internet for a while. I spent almost 2 hours there, updating journal and reading about the war.

About 3:00, the four of us took a tuk-tuk to Wat Sok Pa Louang, which offers herbal sauna and traditional Laos massage for 25,000 kip. Spent more than an hour there, then we walked to the University of Laos, Department of Engineering and Architecture, because Jasmine wanted to play some basketball with the locals (they had a court there, obviously). Lots of locals playing soccer in the soccer fields, and also lots playing basketball. Jas and Sapir had to wait a couple of games before they could get in on a game. They finally played a game, they played on the same team with some locals. They lost, but they are both good basketball players. Then we took a tuk-tuk back to the guest house and went for supper.

After supper, I had a sundae at a dessert place, then back to the guest house and to bed.

The sauna was neat, you could smell the herbs in the steam, and the steam was HOT! The lady tending it said it was between 55 and 60 degrees (that'd be celcius). The massage was, well, ok, but they sure stretched and pulled muscles a lot, and poked and prodded, and, because it was a sauna, you got naked, and just had a sarong around you, and during the massage, the masseuse (which was male), kept massaging my ass, and got awful close to my family jewels numerous times. He may have touched them at one point. It was interesting. Courtney masseuse was also male, and when he was massaging between her legs, she was much enjoying it!!!!!