Welcome to the world...

We continue to be charmed by Luang Prabang. Last night we went to the night market. If you have been reading this as we go, you know we've been to A LOT of markets. I knew we had to check it out but I was starting to feel marketed-out. Thank god we went - This one is truly fantastic! In typical Laos fashion there is no pushing around. A simple "no thank you" works just fine here. Almost everything there is homemade, and you can feel the greater pride the vendors take in their product.



Alex making one of many purchases.



The market goes on and on down the main street of the city. Each night at 5pm the vendors begin setting up, rain or moonshine (last night was mainly the former).

We made quite a few purchases but most are gifts (and probably for some of you reading) so I'm not going to talk about anything but one purchase. They sell a lot of baby things (things for babies, literally, luc!) and Alex and I are having a hard time not buying them despite our not having babies... We did find the cutest cloth baby books and decide we should each get one. Here's mine:



Pretend that's Alex and I despite it not being two girls...



While we didn't see a deer, we DID go to Vientiane, AND see the Mekong!



We are in Luang Prabang, and may just meet an elephant!
If you have been reading this religiously (like my mom) you'll remember the weird stop we made as we entered Laos airspace at the tiny airport - that was Pakse!



"welcome to the world" - I love that instead of "the end" and it feels very fitting to my trip.

One thing we've done a ton of in Luang Prabang is laugh - laugh for the sake of laughing, laugh because of a bad massage, laugh because our shower is over the toilet at our hotel here, laugh because Alex accidentally ordered two espressos and then drank them both resulting in a high, laugh laugh laugh. It has really been lovely.



Me stifling laughter at dinner last night...

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