noodle quest 2006

i will try as hard as i can to make this post coherent as jess has somehow convinced me that whiskey will help my illness and after only two glasses i feel a bit loopy….
i went to see a lao doctor today at the international clinic. she and her assistant laughed at me when i asked if i had bird flu which i know statrs with upper respiratory. thankfully- i do not have bird flu as it onyl lasta a day or two until the victim falls deathly ill, which, praise buddha, i am not. she did however diagnose em with strep throat which is straneg as she never did a strep test but whatever the case my tonsils are huge and red. she gave me three kinds of medicine and everyone in the waiting room including her laughed when i asked her to explain to me what they were… why is this funny? one is for the infection, dolox or soemthing as teh antibiotic, one for the cough and one is an herbal drop you dissolev in water. all in all 24$ for teh visit and the meds which is double teh cost it would have been any other day btu sunday… go figure illness costs more on a certain day of teh week…
i am very happy to not to have bird flu. on other notes- teh date with the cute thai boy ended up being held nto at the clinic but instead at the buddha park i posted a ipcture of yesterday. we rented a motorcycle and droev about 35km out of vientiane to this park which was kind of cheesy with buddhist and hindu statues built in the 1950’s. highlight of the day was taking pictures of this boy taking pictures of other things and also listening to a lao man play a recorder out of his left nostril- no joke.
some new pics are up. they are all of friends from koh mak and some pics from today in the buddha park. for some reason they got all scrambled out of order again when i loaded them onto the computer. ENJOY!
p.s. i think we go to vang vieng, laos tomorrow. bye bye!

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