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Laos

Lao New Year in Konglor Village

Sabaidee Pi Mai! It’s Pi Mai time in Laos! That festive time of year when the temps and crime soars, beer and water flow unrestrained, social mores are cast aside, and expats attempt to flee Vientiane in droves […]

Laos Life: 1-9 April 2017

It’s Pi Mai season in Laos! Pi Mai is Lao New Year — the biggest and most widely-celebrated festival in all of Laos! It also coincides with the hottest time of year here in Laos, […]

Night at the Museum

The National Museum is moving out of its downtown home of forty years. So, how do Laotians mark such an occasion? With a little Michael Jackson, of course.

Date Night

Date night in Vientiane! Three bars, two puzzling toilets, and one quirky French restaurant. About as exciting as it gets for a date night around here, and that’s just fine with us. In a previous post, I mentioned that we […]

9 Months with Noe

Nine Months!!! Another eventful month with the Mister in Laos. He’s [scarily] becoming more and more human every day, which is both exciting and challenging […]

Laos Life: 7-12 March 2017

Noe’s back on his feet after feeling a bit under the weather the past few days. Seems that everyone’s kids are sick these days. Cold season, I guess. Well, not cold as in cool, of course. We’ve been having something […]

Naga View

Noe seems to have strange fixation on the sunrise, as he wakes Lori up right about then every morning to feed. Can’t say I blame him. It’s been too long since we visited our beloved “Baby Lady” restaurant and […]

Sunday Fun-Day

Saturday was all about getting stuff done. A visit to ITECC mall to get some lightbulbs and other odds and ends was in order. We were having some unusual weather — overcast and considerably cooler than it had been, and wondered […]

8 Months Old

Our little baby boy is growing like a weed. This month it seems as though Noe’s gone and become a little person. He’s becoming much more opinionated about things, and also learning new ways to […]

Endless Summer

We had something of a “heat wave” this past week. Temperatures soared to the mid to upper 90s (F). Sounds more dramatic than it actually was. When it’s regularly hitting the upper 80s over several weeks, a jump to the mid-90s […]

Laos Life: 27 Jan – 8 Feb 2017

Friday morning at the French Clinic. Nope, Lori’s not trying out new DME (Durable Medical Equipment) for work. While running down a very good road at sunrise, her heel landed on an errant rock […]

Seven Months

It’s that time of the month again… And the Mister has had quite a month. Hard to believe it’s been seven months with this guy. At times, whole months seem to speed by in the […]

Departures

Up early at 6am to catch tak bat, the almsgiving for which Luang Prabang is famous. Despite having visited Luang Prabang since moving to Laos in September, this is our first time up to see tak […]

Luang Prabang: Bamboo Bridges

Monday morning in Luang Prabang with family and friends. Miraculously, we beat the retirees to breakfast. Not sure how that happened with the babe, but it happened. A good morning to be up early […]

Two More for the Road

Ten days into Lori’s parents’ stay in Vientiane, we added two more guests to the mix — John and Shirley, close family friends from Portland, Oregon. Shirley (not to be confused with Lori’s mom, […]

Déjà Vu

When we have visitors anywhere, we generally like to distribute the time across places and things we’ve seen and done with some new adventures as well. From the first week in Laos, we started to make a mental list of places to […]

Grammy & Grampy Visit Laos

Grammy and Grandpa arrived on a Saturday evening, fresh off a flight from Tapei (via Hanoi). They had been traveling with a couple of close family friends who planned to join us all in another ten days. For now, it […]

New Year’s on the Nam Ngum

I snuck out of our bungalow at Green View Resort while Lori and Noe were still fast asleep to get some much needed kayaking in. We had heard that the sunrises here are pretty amazing. After a star-filled night the […]

Green View

Lori had Friday and Monday off for New Year’s weekend, so we thought it might be a good time to get out of town and spend three of those days on a lake about 2.5 hours north of the capital. It’s […]

Date Day in Vientiane

An unexpected discrepancy in Lori’s work schedule and Noe’s nursery school schedule means the perfect opportunity for heading out into the city sans baby for the first time since moving to Vientiane.

Laos Life: December 2016

Sunsets, birds, weddings, and a mysterious Christmas Eve partial power outage. A look back at the highlights of our first December in Laos.

Ban Haysoke

Spending some time in one of Vientiane’s more intriguing and historic neighborhoods, Haysoke Village, taking in the crumbling Bauhaus architecture, food, and people.

Laos Life: 23-30 November 2016

It’s nice to be back in town for the last week of November. It’s full-on dry season now, so we’re trying our best to take advantage of the cooler, sunnier weather.

Luang Prabang: North Bank

We spend our last day in Luang Prabang taking a leisurely stroll around the UNESCO peninsula, and a local ferry across the Mekong to explore a small village and a hilltop jungle temple.