Visitors come calling

We've just wrapped up a fantastic 10 days or so with SIPA friends. Ari and Jennine arrived November 6. We spent a few days in Vientiane, with Ari and Jennine taking themselves around town during the day, and hanging out during the night. We headed to Luang Prabang on Wednesday, then further North the next morning. A couple days on the Nam Ou brought us to Luang Prabang, where we met up with Geoffrey and Melissa.

Of course, by that point, our camera battery died, so we have no proof that the 6 of us were all together. But we were. I promise.

Ari and Jennine left Monday morning, and Geoffrey and Melissa moved into the role of visitors that run around town during the day. Unfortunately, and fortunately, they spent much of Monday figuring out how to leave. They couldn't leave Tuesday, as planned, because of a ticketing thing. So they figured out how to leave, on Thursday. So they were able to stay for Tat Luang and had plenty of chance to just relax, which was probably good for them, and was great for us, as we had more chance to hang out with them.

Anyway, pictures below. As always, I've tried to put them in chronological order to an extent, but some are completely out of wack.

And now Stens and Ford are here. And we're really not happy about it. We don't like them.