Shopping!

Earlier today we finished off Thailand and flew to Luang Prabang in Laos. We hadn't even got out of the bus before we were all in love with the city. On arrival at our gorgeous little hotel, we got all our washing out and over to the laundrette across the road. We were leaving early-ish the next day so the lady said she'd have it all done by 10pm. Yay! Clean clothes!

Next it was up to the room for a quick change, drink (my room mate Cynthia had a bottle of Vodka) and off to shop!! Bargaining here was a lot more fun and the people were just so lovely. With only an hour to shop we got a quick look around, picked where we wanted to come back to and grabbed a couple of things.

Back to the Hotel then to change again and head out for dinner. There were traditional dancers and a band on the stage on the other side of the room from us and we thought there would be another exhibition later in the evening so we got settled and ordered our drinks and watched a little from our table around the corner from the stage. They soon finished to a rousing applause from the tables in front. Unfortunately they then packed up and left so we didn't get to see them.

After dinner we piled back into the vans and were transfered back to the hotel. We had our team meeting and then headed back to the markets which closed at 10pm and it was now 9pm!! More shopping squared away and we came back to get our washing to find it wasn't ready :( Kyle one of our social tour leaders (they are with us the whole trip) said he'd collect it for us at 7am. So it was off to bed for the night, but not just any bed, finally we had soft beds and a somewhat regular flow of hot water.

Yay!