Back in the Big B

This morning i actually woke up.. at 5:30am to go watch the Alms giving. It was good, except the stupid tourists who are not respectful of space of people and the monks. That kind of ruined the atmsophere. Tyson said the morning he went it was quieter.. hmm interesting. We think it was because it was raining that morning and today it wasn't. The people were basically 2 feet away from the monks face, and like the people of Laos faces with flashes going off from thier camera. There is signs all over town saying DO NOT DO THAT. Clearly they don't get it. If i was a monk i would have punched them... then Tyson kindly said "thats not really the way monks act". Still man that is so rude, and they weren't even kneeling or sitting which your supposed to be because you are lower than a monk. As annoying as the tourists were, what did you think of the actual alms giving Sara? I thought it was good i thought i already explained that part. See other post if you don't know what the early morning alms giving is.

From there we went back to the hotel to sleep since it was 6:30am. Tyson actually watched HBO and saw the last tail end of Blades of Glory while i Cat napped.. and then we both watched the beginnings of Memoirs of a Geisha, that is a good movie i forgot it was that good. Then we packed up all our stuff and went for our usual breakfast at the Scandinavian Bakery.

From the bakery we went to check out the last Wat (temple) that we wante to see before departing Laos. The temple was nice, they were restoring it as we were there putting new sequences on (shiny glass on the outside). From there we had one stop to shop to get a couple more things and then some food for the plane.

We left the hotel at around 11:30 to be at the airport super early (2 hours)... good thing Bangkok airways had a special guest lounge and we were not to scruffy to get asked to go in. At first I thought it was a scam like they were going to plot something on us.. or get us to buy something like that first class lounge in China we went to in our last adventure. I thought this because NO ONE ELSE was there.. I guess we were really early but there was free internet and some snacks. But within half an hour a flock load of other white people came in. We boarded at 2:00pm and got to Bangkok at 4:00 got through customs fast and then we had an hour or so long taxi ride to the hotel. We didn't get scammed this time because Tyson said we want the meter price and the guy said ok but its going to be 450bhat either way.... it was really only 285 bhat with the airport fee. So no more scams for us!

We realized at the airport in Luang Prabang, while reading the bangkok guide book that Tyson pretty much got scammed on his tailor made suite. Like word from word what they explained in the book happened to us. Dang! Good thing i didn't get scammed.. haha.. just kidding Tyson I didn't want anything anyways. Still cheaper than Canada but we will have to thoroughly inspect the makings of it tomorrow when we go pick it up.

Its a little wierd being back in the big B... its so massive. And the 7-11's every block through me off. We kind of miss the rice paddies already and the nice greenary. Oh well Fall will be soon in Edmonton and that is always pretty.

I pretty much have a cold.. and Tyson is dead tired. I guess that means we are done like dinner. So we are going to go have dinner and chill out, maybe watch a movie... free movies here at the hotel.

Tommorrow maybe see more sights get Tysons suit and well see from there how we're feeling.

Laters
Sara and Tyson