Archive for the 'Laos' Category

WW: Around Town

Yazan: CanCan | 03 December 2008 | 15 Comments
Categories: Engrish, Laos, Pictures

Jojo and Deeds being welcomed into our favorite jiaozi shop in Vientiane.

A weird sign from the water park in Vientiane, Laos.

Monky Business

Yazan: CanCan | 14 November 2008 | 23 Comments
Categories: CanCan, Laos, Links, Pictures

Today, for Photo Friday (hosted at Delicious Baby), I thought I would share a picture from the time we decided to do family portraits at the local wat. It was fun, but hot. We got lots of neat pictures that day.

Which monk is the cutest?

Tea Time: Casio Baby-G

Yazan: CanCan | 09 November 2008 | 586 Comments
Categories: Air travel, Deaky Deke, Engrish, Giveaways, Laos, Mom stuff, Pictures, Reviews, Riding in cars with kids

Hello, Tea Party guests!

I have been looking forward to this week for ages! This is a special week of fun and giveaways just for the ladies!
It is fun to win stuff for our children, but how about pampering yourself for a change?
True, I’m kicking things off a little early, but I just couldn’t help myself! [...]

WW: Rules of the Water Park

Yazan: CanCan | 29 October 2008 | 26 Comments
Categories: Laos, Pictures

I saw this sign at the water park entrance in Vientiane, Laos and I thought it was humorous in its (very necessary) attention to detail:

Jojo’s Special Day

Yazan: CanCan | 24 October 2008 | 14 Comments
Categories: Jojo, Laos, Pictures

Jojo’s 4th birthday is on Saturday, so today (with permission) we went to his school to celebrate.
At school the children take off their shoes and put them on a special shelf outside the door.

When we arrived, the teacher was having the children make birthday cards for Jojo. I was impressed!

I brought snacks for Jojo to [...]

Culinary Delights of Laos

Yazan: CanCan | 17 October 2008 | 6 Comments
Categories: Eating, Laos, Recipes, Thailand, Travel with children

I just wanted to share two of the many foods that I enjoy in Laos.

In Laos there is a lot of buzz about a little dish called papaya salad.
When I first heard about “papaya salad”, I pictured a lovely syrupy sweet fruit salad, perhaps artfully carved complete with butterflied pineapple.
In reality, papaya salad, or (Tam [...]

Wordless Wednesday: Street Food in Laos

Yazan: CanCan | 15 October 2008 | 27 Comments
Categories: Eating, Laos, Traveling baby

This week in Vientiane is the annual Boat Racing Festival. We went to the river front today and stayed only long enough to purchase some tasty snacks.
It was just too hot with a CRUSH of people to hang around!

One of the toddler-friendly snacks we picked up is one of my personal favorites, grilled, seasoned sticky [...]

That Dam Stupa (Vientiane, Laos)

Yazan: CanCan | 08 October 2008 | 17 Comments
Categories: Laos, Teaching kids different cultures, Travel with children, Traveling baby

That Dam Stupa. It is pretty fun to type, but it isn’t pronounced how you think. It is a transliteration of the Lao name, and Lao language has it’s own alphabet. “That” is pronounced like “tot”, “Dam” should read like “dahm”, and “stupa”, well, yeah, that’s “stoo-pah”.

That Dam Stupa (you know you want to snicker [...]

Diapers Available in Thailand, Laos, and China

Yazan: CanCan | 01 October 2008 | 29 Comments
Categories: Baby care, China, Laos, Moving overseas, Thailand, Traveling baby

Thailand has a wide variety of disposable diapers available, especially in large cities. These pictures are from a Tesco Lotus store in Udon Thani, Thailand.
Mamy Poko are some of the most absorbent diapers available. I think they are even better than diapers in the States. I had a bit of a shock when we went [...]

Snapshots of Luang Prabang

Yazan: CanCan | 12 September 2008 | 10 Comments
Categories: Laos, Luang Prabang, Pictures, Riding in cars with kids, Winner's List

On Monday I’m going to start five days of fun and games-related giveaways! Grab this button and put it on your blog, then leave a comment on this post telling me you did. This will be your special extra entry into EVERY giveaway. I wanted to do it this way so that people who actually [...]

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