Jan. 29-30, 2013 - Vientiane, Laos
We only spent 2 days in Vientiane. The first full day we did a cooking class. We cooked up 3 different foods: papaya salad, chicken spicy salad, and traditional Lao stew. It turned out to be a private lesson because Alene and I were the only ones to sign up for the day. The cooking lady was very nice and explained what all the ingredients were. Some I didn't even know existed, like banana flower. What? She did tell us what we could substitute for various things in case we weren't able to find the weird stuff. We chopped, we pounded, we stirred, and mixed. When it was all done we sat down to a delicious and huge lunch. And even with my cooking skills it still tasted very good.
We also went out for a glass of wine and ended up meeting an Australian women who had moved to Vientiane with her boyfriend. He was 20 years older than she was and he had a daughter just 4 years younger than she was. They obviously had lots of money as we got to go out on the town with this woman and her personal driver. Don't worry wee stayed close to our hostel and even ended up hanging out with some folks that were staying at the same place. It was a interesting and very random night.
This is our mosquito grave yard on the bus on the way to Bangkok.
What I have learned:
Having access to seemingly unlimited amounts of money doesn't equal happiness. But I have known that for a while.
So when you come home you are going to cook for all us??!!!!
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