Author: Laura
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Homemade food: salmon, banana-squash loaf, dinosaur cookies and chicken soup & stock
I’ve had an extremely busy Sunday last weekend cooking and baking up a delicious homemade storm. Â Since coming back to Canada I have felt the need and want to create wonderful things for Chris and I to eat. The worlds cuisine has inspired and reminded me about how important food is. Before we left too…
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Salmon run, quadding, camping and 2nd wedding anniversary
Lots of stuff does happen in three weeks. Here are a few photos to highlight our life so far since returning to Canada.
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Cu Chi Tunnels from the Vietnam War
Chris and I have reached our new home, Grande Prairie. Today the sun was shining on the fluffy cumulus clouds and the air smelt of the end of summer as I looked upon the solid yellow trees. It was our first full day in Grande Prairie. Chris and I visited the local TELUS store to…
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The War Remnants Museum in Vietnam
While in Ho Chi Minh City we visited the War Remnants Museum which focuses on the Vietnam War and the result of chemical warfare, specifically the use of a chemical called Agent Orange. I strongly recommend this museum. It only costs about $2 to enter. They have an impressive collection of tanks, planes, helicopters and…
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Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
We’re in Bangkok right now souvenir shopping and site seeing by day and hanging out with our friend Ben, who we met during The Gibbon Experience, by night. Yet again, it’s the final countdown. After roughly 650 meals in restaurants over the past seven months we only have about 9 more restaurant meals to go.  The…
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What’s a Wat?
While visiting Chiang Mai, Thailand Chris and I strolled around the city visiting a few of the wats. You might be asking yourself, “What’s a wat?” According to  Wikipedia: “A wat (derived from the Sanskrit word वात Vattaka) is a monastery temple in Cambodia, Thailand, or Laos. Strictly speaking a wat is a Buddhist sacred precinct…
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Laura’s photos from The Gibbon Experience in Laos
I know you all enjoyed Chris’s wonderfully entertaining post about The Gibbon Experience in Laos, but I also thought my collection of photos might help flesh it out. I am kicking myself now because I took many photos with our point shoot and the quality/focus/exposure of them cannot compare to my 550D Canon.
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Along the roads of Laos
We are currently in Vietnam. Before coming here we were in Laos for about 11 days. Â This was much longer than we planed on staying in Laos but since I got ill for 6 days we hung around Luang Prabang and then Vientiane, the capital. Sadly, besides the waterfall, in Luang Prabang and Vientiane we…
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Scuba diving at Ko Phi Phi Ley island in Thailand
I was filled with anticipation for our two dives at Ko Phi Phi Ley because they were our first dives that were not part of our scuba training and also our first dives not in the waters around the Thai island of Ko Tao. The atmosphere was completely different from Ban’s Diving School. It was…
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Leo DiCaprio’s beach, Maya Bay, on Ko Phi Phi Ley island in Thailand
The dramatic clouds shifted and folded over one another as we sat on the deck of the ferry from Railay to Ko Phi Phi island. Even with the threat of rain on the horizon Chris and I held our ground because if Thailand has taught us one thing it’s that it doensn’t kill you to…
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Learning to scuba dive in Koh Tao, Thailand at Ban’s Diving Resort
Chris and I have now been in Thailand for two weeks and it is truly the vacation from the vacation that we both needed. I cannot think of one thing to complain about. The food is amazing, the weather is perfect flip-flop and bikini weather and we had fun learning to scuba dive! We are…