The Slow Boat to New Adventures

The girls who worked at our guesthouse the first night of the slow boat adventure. They are 16 and 14 and offered us weed the second we stepped into their "guesthouse" if that's what you want to call it!

The view from the very dodgy little guesthouse. Dodgy maybe? The view? Breathtaking!

The view from our boat on the way into Laos. We spent 2 days on this boat with time only for beer Lao and new friends =)

Tiff and I on the boat.

Feb 11-12

I spent two days traveling by slow boat to Luang Prabang (Laos). What a beautiful way to travel. The morning of Feb 11 we arrived at the dock a little late to discover a very very overloaded boat packed full of miserable looking people. They were tying to cram us all onto the same boat but one lady with us would have nothing of it. She refused and persuaded us all to demand another boat. The boat driver threatened many times to leave us but this bossy woman insisted we call their bluff. About an hour later the boat driver gave in to our request for a new boat. Within minutes about 20 of us piled on to this spacious new boat each with a seat to ourselves. The other boat was the same size but had about 60 people crammed on it. We still don't no why no one else joined our boat, but I must admit we weren't complaining. On the boat we met a Canadian girl named Sarah and two English blokes Tom and Dom. We had music playing from Dom's ipod and we had a great time playing cards, reading, laughing, eating, enjoying the view... We had plenty of room, beautiful scenery and new friends to share the experience. Couldn't get much better. Everyone on the other boat just loved us as we got off smiling and laughing... Hence, the next day the boats evened out in numbers, but I still really enjoyed the trip and our new friends!

My first impression of Lao: breathtaking...

The moral of the story: being fashionably late is fashionable =)