Scott and I made a tradition to get something to hang in our Christmas tree from each place we travel too. We started this on our honeymoon 4 years ago and since then we’ve filled the tree pretty quick with all the ornaments we gathered from our recent round the world adventure.

A pair of kittens will forever be thankful to a pair of backpackers with a furry heart of gold.

At “The Otherside Bungalows” in Vang Viang, Laos we quickly learned that the plot of land all the bungalows were on was also a cow pasture.

Everyone is in good spirits and having the time of their lives. How can you not be gleeful as you float down a river in a tube? Which is really the best part of the whole experience.

Wake up feeling like shit, the weather is too crappy to go tubing, had a soupy train wreck of a poutine breakfast, and all my work on this blog that I have poured my heart and soul into is completely gone with no sign of ever coming back!

For some reason you are able to spend many days here. Its probably the fact that everyone is in a constant flux of hangover-ness and never want to bother moving onwards in their travels as the thought of getting in one of those horrible buses just makes them want to vomit.

We could almost spend our whole trip in Thailand, especially in a laid back town like Chiang Pai. But there’s more of Asia to see, so we took a plane to the border town of Udon Thani to cross into Laos and get into Vientanne.