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Well we are back in Vientiane again for two nights until we go back to Malaysia. I am enjoying the croissants and the coffee as well as the Laap… or as the Thai’s like to call the larb.. mmm salty/sweet/sour… slightly crunchy and delicious.

Sticky rice or not cooked enough rice as one member of our party likes to call it is also V delish…. I love the container called a Kong that it arrives in and its glutinous nature.. whats not to love and I totally disagree with the its not cooked enough idea…

Today as we traveled from Vang Vien home of the endless friends episode we once more had a sweat box of a time.

Well Sonkran is over and the water fights have stopped thankfully… it was getting tiresome carrying things in plastic so they didnt get wet. Some of the excellent pattiseries have opened again and so this morning I had a croissant ordinaire…mmm delicious.   We are off to Luang Prabang today… flying for $78 USD.. much better than a windy road.

armed and dangerous!!

The biggest water fight in Asia. We landed in Laos to find that we were in the middle of the Buddhist new year celebration’s. What fun imagine being able to pour water on anyone you see. No fights ensue unless they are water fights which involve whole hotels or families. It’s great. Here is a picture of an old man getting into it as a big water warrior.

Well, up early this morning to make bread and to make biscotti… mmm almond biscotti not quite as nice as pistachio biscotti but almost as good.

Well today we are off to Brick fields to the blind masssueses and then to the Gardens to replace my burkini bottoms that Dad has commandeered for sailing.

mmm biscotti!

  Well today is Easter Sunday and its the parents first day in KL. We decided to have Dim Sum and we went to Yuen Garden Dim Sum House, at Bandar Puchong Jaya.

I have attached some pics. The Dim Sum was ok… there was no Chili oil:( and the service was less than attentive. The stares were all there though as we were the only westerners in the house and didn’t we feel awkward!! I would recommend the Sui mie as it was delicious.

Strangely the tea that we were given in mugs everyone else got a tea pot I am not sure why…

Well the house has been a buzz with work this morning cleaning it to within an inch of its life. My guests have been helping and the smell of clean washing is divine.

Today we had a small visitor… a tiny bird that has been helping itself to a some of an aquarium filter… to make a nest… it is very chirpy and cute… and quite tenacious.. it has made the previously normal filter very furry!

Now I am off to mega mall to buy some non hallal sausage… and some Jusco laudry detergent… it smells lovely.. I think that I am a little addicted to it ( the smell)

till later

A

mmm the smell of the buns is all around me… a pity that Mum and Dad dont arrive till tomorrow…yummy buns

Here is link to them:)

hotcross buns hub

Well school is out for Easter! The last day going out with a bang as usual with to much to do, too many kids and tearful leavers. But now I am free.

The parental units arrive on Saturday… the caraway seeds are so close that I can almost taste them… not to mention the massive hugs that I will give them. Isn’t it funny how things change… When I was a Kid my Mother through the gratuitous use of “the silent treatment” drilled into her her kids always phone. So much so now I have an almost Pavlovian response to airports with my fingers itching to text all and sundry with my intended destination and time that I am staying away…. when I arrive at my destination the same urges almost cripple me again…  Mum  and dad have no such qualms… with the text I received today saying “arrived in Singapore off to bed now”  I responded… no response back. I know that Dad has international roaming perhaps his inherited Scottish penny pinching has won a skirmish in the war with mums love of the children…. for now

Well I have had a night to sleep on my new blog (imagine anna asleep on her keyboard!) well actually I was too excited to sleep or perhaps that was dinner last night… I havent had fish sauce in quite sometime… lets just say… tum tum  not happy:(

Today is school, second last day of term… four days until the parental units arrive… more excitement.. finally I will united with some caraway seeds so I can make some rye bread…

Till this afternoon…

AE