Day Twenty Eight

Something Awesome: Felt much better than yesterday! olleh!
Something Crap: I don't have any phone pictures from this day.
Something we ate: Plain soda and delicious fresh shakes that tasted like heaven in our faces. (Banana and Oreo shake, Orea and Nutella and Strawberry and lime) Perhaps it was the lack of food for the whole day yesterday that made the shakes taste so good.
Something random: We chilled out and watched some Tv in our room.
Something we did: Booked a tour to the Pak Ou Caves and Whiskey-Making Village for the morning.
Something said: "Have these shakes been here all along? HOW have we missed them?!"

Day Twenty Seven

Day of Death

Something Crap: I was up all of the previous night - after catching some bug. Vomiting and the whole shebang. I'm not sure what to blame it on - green curry, dodgy water or bacteria in general. But it wasn't pretty. I finally made it out of bed around 1pm and tried to eat something which didn't go down so well and I spent the entire day in bed.

Something Awesome: Having my little brother around to help me and look after me.

Something Random: The only channels that are semi-understandable on Laos TV are the Australian Network and MTV China. (As Blake was about to change the channel off MTV China -
me: NO! wait! it might be a good song!
Blake: It's in Chinese.
Me: I know, but it might be a good song!
Blake: really? wow. you've been in Asia too long. sigh.

Something we ate: I tried to keep down a french toast with oats and mango.

The meal was delicious, but it didn't stay down long...
the face of how I felt this day:

Something we did: Blake tried to teach me the concept of Casino Card Counting. Lol, basic math is not a strong point especially when I have bacteria central going on, so let's just say that Vegas is safe.

Something said: "I think I've had enough of Vegas take-over. I'm just gonna lie down now if that's ok."

Day Twenty Six

First of January


Something Awesome: Welcoming in the New Year in an exotic country.
Something Crap: Saying goodbye to my University friends - who are traveling on to Thailand from here.
Something Random: We looked around at a few possible tour options for the next couple of days. We also had an afternoon power nap to catch up on New Years.
Something we did: I caught up on a lot of blog posts at an internet cafe with awesome bright pink lounger chairs. Sorry for the sporadic posting but life without the iPhone is infinitely more difficult. sigh.

Something we ate: I had a green curry at a local restaurant and fresh lemonade that randomly had a coffee bean in it (?) and Blake had crumbed pork.
Something said: Happy New Years!

Day Twenty Five

New Years Eve


Something Awesome: Did a swing jump into one of the most beautiful, cleanest, bluest waterfalls I've ever seen. Kuang-si, Luang Prabang:

Something crap: Forgetting to take pics using my old school lomo camera at the waterfalls. fail.

Something we did: Went back to Dyen Sabai and played "rude-scrabble" thanks to Hellen haha. We also went to a river-view bar called Utopia for a New Years Eve Party.

Something random: Blake had a firework which he tried to set off for about 15 minutes and nothing worked. We think it was a dud.

Something we ate: New Years eve specials at Utopia - Mixed grilled vegetable Sandwich, Fried Mekong River-weed and spicy dip and spicy nuts.

Something Said: Everybody from their respective countries shouting "Happy New Year!" at various times of the day/night to coincide with the count-down of their own country.

I hope everyone had a very festive New Years and all the very best for an amazing and fulfilling year to come. Thank you for all the blog support over the past year, I really appreciate it and look forward to hearing more from everyone in the future :)

Day Twenty Four

Pool day

Something Awesome: After we were so impressed with Dyen Sabai Restaurant that we visited the day before,  we decided to spend the day at their "sister" establishment La Pistoche - which runs movies all day and has a pool bar vibe.

Something crap: Having to leave our "nice" accommodation so super early in the morning due to the "manager's" private/not-so-private nocturnal activities. (See previous post)

Something we did: We suntanned all day at the pool bar, playing scrabble and watched a movie in the bamboo hut when we needed a sun break. It was a perfect, book, pool, sun, relax, chill day.

Something random: We watched a traditional Laos dance at a place called Roots and leaves after we'd finished dinner.

Something we ate: We took a trip to the local night market and found a local buffet for 10 000 kip (R10 or $1.25) all you can eat vegetables, noodles and rice and if you want meat- pay by kebab. Delicious and WELL worth the money. So. much. food.

Something said: 
A random Swedish stranger-man sitting next to me at the buffet (watching me as I finished all the food on my plate): Wow. You are ze winner of zis table. You eat ALL.

yeah.

That's. when you know.

Day Twenty Three

Arriving in Laos

Something Awesome: Both of us arriving in Luang Prabang, Laos in one piece.

Something Crap: After missioning most of the morning and settling on accommodation that we thought was quite nice and booking in... We arrived back in the evening (9pm) and tried to find someone who could help us with the wifi code only to see the Laos "man-in-charge" creep out of a guest hotel room, with a towel wrapped around him, followed by a local girl, also naked wrapped in a towel. The manager then returned in a pair of boxers sporting an inappropriate "tent" and left abruptly to resume his business while we could do nothing but sit in our room with the doors bolted. Ear plugs would have been nice. DO NOT STAY HERE. 

Something We did: We found a gorgeous restaurant Dyen Sabai across the Nam Khan river. We had to cross a rickety bamboo bridge to get there - but it was totally worth it. The bar/restaurant has private bamboo huts, different board games and amazing shakes. DO VISIT HERE. (Nam Khan River below)

Something Random: While we were playing scrabble - we decided to use Blake's phone dictionary to verify the validity of any word. "ok.. well...if the phone says it's a word.. then it's a word..." We later realised that Blake's phone accepts almost any word as valid. Side Note to self: "Fregon" is not a word.

Something we ate: A Loas Fondue with beef, vegetables, noodles cooked over an open flame. The dish also includes two eggs which you scamble in the noodle broth and a spicy dipping sauce. yum.

Something said:
Che: Are you sure that's a word? I feel like it's not.
Blake: Well it is coming up in the phone dictionary...
Che: yeah. that's true.
Blake: ok then, Fregon for 200 points.