Pryor Adventures: Nam Ngum

We had a very productive weekend. Planted out first plants, made cookies, went to a BBQ then finished off with a trip out of the city to Nam Ngum, which is a river, but a few hours North the Lao built a damn which created a lake with lots of tiny islands.

The story goes like this, Pryor's pack the car full of junk to go swimming and play in the sun; leave the house at 8:45, just 15 minutes after we wanted ( I think we're getting better about time management). We promptly get lost as we make our way out of the city and head towards the wrong Nam Ngum, two on the Map, we wanted the lake not the river...Should probably make it a point to say which one in Lao next time instead of just Nam Ngum that way? HA! I have also decided that the person who reads and speaks the language should be the navigator, not the driver. Anyway, we ended up lost not once, but twice. I got car sick, but all the kids seemed to be just fine in the back.

When we finally made it to the lake, I wanted to eat at the restaurant that over looked the lake instead of getting on a boat right away, you know car sick and all, but our waitress jumped the gun and ordered our boat and took our food down to it, so we followed her lead, leaving everything in the car. That means we had no swim suits, no towels, no change of clothes, no diapers for the baby, no sun screen, NOTHING.

For as planned as this trip was we still failed to think it fully through as we jumped on the boat. We still ended up having a lovely lunch and the kids really enjoyed themselves on the shore of a tiny island in the middle of the lake. Luckily no one got sunburned; we only lost 1 pair of underwear due to an accident and pair of binoculars were dropped into the water. Below are some photos from the trip. ENJOY.