Photos

So it seems that the easiest thing to do vis a vis photos from Laos is to not post them here, but rather to post a link here to ofoto.com, where batches of our pictures will reside. The reasons for this are as follows:

1) The internet here is very slow, and by here I mean the embassy, and by slow I mean molasses in winter. And not winter in Laos, which wouldn't really affect the molasses that much anyway because it's still hot, but winter in Wadena, MN, where when I was in high school and would leave for school with wet hair it would freeze. That kind of molasses in winter.

2) The embassy internet connection is considered FAST by Laos standards. I'm told that our home dial-up service, if we ever get connected, will be quite SLOW by Laos standards. So there you go.

3) We are currently trying to upload 28 pictures to Ofoto.com from the office. We've been here over an hour....and we're not yet done.

So you guys better damn well appreciate the hell out of these pictures. Write songs and poems and odes about them. Come to think of it, I'm not completely sure what an ode is, so you can forget about that one. I want a short story about the picture of our street, at least 13 limericks about the picture of the other street, and a sonnet or two about the floating restaurant. Get busy people.

Today we are on a quest to find a chord to connect our digital camera to our computer. So far we've come up with nothing. We are also on a quest to buy Katherine a cell phone and get her cell phone service. She's a lady on the go...she can't be tied down by chorded phones (is that the opposite of chordless?) By the way, write an epic poem about our quests.

Then, because going on multiple quests in one day is damn tiring work, we are getting 1 hour massages at 5:30 pm (cost, 42,000 kip...$4). Then we're meeting a new friend out for dinner, because questing and getting massaged really works up an appetite.

Katherine says that is enough, and that I swear too much and that I shouldn't assign homework based on our pictures so you can forget that too.

Gotta go to the market.

phil

(later) --- here is the fruits of our labor. http://www.ofoto.com/BrowsePhotos.jsp?showSlide=true&Uc=qejkjnr.40kcqj6b&Uy=fm73b5&Ux=0 Click on the link and see if you get directed to our pictures. If it doesn't work, let us know in the comments section of this post.

Good luck,

p&k