We were the only people in this entire water park. Steve's face says it all...terrifying!
Our extravagant splurge on French cuisine. Pictured here is Steve's filet mignon with goat cheese/gorgonzola sauce. Price tag $6Additional photos can be seen at: http://picasaweb.google.com/robyou/VientianeLaos828912010?feat=directlink
Sorry for the delay in posts, but we've been taking somewhat of a vacation from our vacation while in Southern Thailand. There wasn't too much to report on about our adventures in Vientiane, the sleepy capital of Laos, but we partook in two of our favorite activities: eating and some water fun. At the recommendation of some fellow travelers, we decided to kill time at a local water park in Vientiane. Although we read some reviews that the park was dangerous and that locals refuse to go there because of its bad safety record, we decided to check it out as we had a day to kill before we took the night bus to Bangkok and we thought it'd be better than walking around the city getting all hot and sweaty. When we first got there, we thought it was closed because the park seemed quiet and deserted. At the insistence of the ticket seller that the park was indeed open, we paid our $4 admission and entered what felt like the theme park scene from the movie Zombieland. Steve and I ran all over this deserted water park with one very bored looking lifeguard trailing us. He accompanied us to the 2 water slides that were working (only 2 of the 12 slides were actually operational) and pantomined how to ride down them properly - face first utilizing a rubber mat. We rode them several times and then a couple of the lifeguard's buddies showed up, so he ignored us the rest of the time, and we managed to not hurt ourselves!
Sorry for the delay in posts, but we've been taking somewhat of a vacation from our vacation while in Southern Thailand. There wasn't too much to report on about our adventures in Vientiane, the sleepy capital of Laos, but we partook in two of our favorite activities: eating and some water fun. At the recommendation of some fellow travelers, we decided to kill time at a local water park in Vientiane. Although we read some reviews that the park was dangerous and that locals refuse to go there because of its bad safety record, we decided to check it out as we had a day to kill before we took the night bus to Bangkok and we thought it'd be better than walking around the city getting all hot and sweaty. When we first got there, we thought it was closed because the park seemed quiet and deserted. At the insistence of the ticket seller that the park was indeed open, we paid our $4 admission and entered what felt like the theme park scene from the movie Zombieland. Steve and I ran all over this deserted water park with one very bored looking lifeguard trailing us. He accompanied us to the 2 water slides that were working (only 2 of the 12 slides were actually operational) and pantomined how to ride down them properly - face first utilizing a rubber mat. We rode them several times and then a couple of the lifeguard's buddies showed up, so he ignored us the rest of the time, and we managed to not hurt ourselves!
One night we indulged in classical French cuisine where Steve had a filet mignon and I had some sort of seafood bisque stew. What probably would have been a couple hundred dollar dinner in the States came out to a whopping $20. We were tempted to stay another day just to indulge in another dinner, but we decided it was time to move on and get into training for our Nepal trek (don't think French dinners help) with some surfing and rock climbing on the islands of So. Thailand.
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