The Roaming Robots

Our third day we set the alarm so we didn't sleep all day. We were heading out to Na Nam to spend a day on the Ang Nam Ngum Reservoir. We had wanted to get some breakfast before heading off so we set the alarm for 9am and it is a good thing we did as I would have slept longer. Breakfast was just dry cereal which confused the servers greatly - why didn't I want milk with my cereal? But it was alright. We also got our first "orange juice" of the trip. I guess technically it is orange, just bright neon orange, and apparently there is some juice in there as there is pulp, but it is not orange juice like you would thing. It is kind of like tang, but that is what all of the orange juice was like. There was even a stand at the one market that had a little thing set up so it looked like juice was coming straight from the orange, but it was also neon orange (and no the oranges there were not neon orange). It was odd. So it had said in the guidebook to go to the bus stati...

Lao National Cultural Hall I'm glad we decided to spend two days in Vientiane as I think I needed the second day of relaxing. We had gone to bed early that first night since I was tired from all the traveling and I thought oh we will get up early-ish no problem. The hotel had breakfast until 9:30 and we thought we would eat then maybe go spy on the morning market and do some sight seeing before it gets too hot. Ha ha. Yeah, we slept in till after 10. By the time we got ready to go, got dressed and slathered the sunscreen on, it was lunchtime. Morning market is for the early morning so we didn't get to do that. Instead we just walked over to lunch. It was on the other side of town, but it doesn't take that long to get there as it is not that big of a city. It was like a 20 minute walk maybe. Not that far, but oh so hot again. We walked by the Lao National Cultural Hall which was this large fancy looking building, which happens to be right across the street from the...