Joy and Earl are some friends that we'd met in Northern China. As planned, they met us as we arrived in Luang Prabang on the slow boat. Of course, Joy had 5 BeerLao waiting for us at the bar. They had waited to meet up with us, since we hadn't seen them in a few months. This was really very nice of them as they were on a tight schedule, and Earl gets itchy feet and is never one to sit around. Earl and Joy are a retired Canadian couple and they are a lot of fun to be around as they make us laugh all the time.
We spent the following day with them and hired a tuk tuk to take us to some outlying attractions. We went to Pak Ou Temple, which contained hundreds of little Buddha statues in a cave on the Mekong. After another BeerLao (excellent beer if you get to try it) on the water, we were taken to a waterfall in the other direction. On the drive, we were waving out the back of the tuk tuk at all the smiling Laos faces we saw - such happy people! The driver, however, tried to con us and took us to a different waterfall (it was closer) than the one we had requested. Earl was not very happy especially as the one we ended up at only had a trickle of water in it!! I suppose in the rainy season it would be really impressive and pretty with lots of cascades, but it was exceptionally disappointing but comical. We had our laughs and overall it was a nice day. And of course, we didn't pay the guy the full amount either (Earl is a hard bargainer)! * Mush
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