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?

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: Laos, Thailand, eating, recipes, 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 | 26 Comments
Categories: Laos, eating, 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 | 15 Comments
Categories: Laos, Teaching Kids about Different Culture, 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 [...]

Snapshots of Luang Prabang

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

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 [...]