Back on the beach

We spent the last month on the beach on Phuket. Most of the tourists are gone and beach chairs are only lined two deep along the beach.

A monk and his students on the beach.

Lunch on the beach.

Thai kids on the beach.

It's not unusual too see Thais go into the water with all their clothes on, bluejeans and all.

Muslims on the beach.

Fish in the water on the beach.

Europeans on the beach.

Unfortunately there is a lot of this.

Merchants on the beach.

Dogs on the beach.

Melissa-Bride to Bee

Thank you to ALL who helped make me feel special! It was a big hit!!!
Thanks to Kristine and Michael for letting us use their house.
Thanks to EVERYONE who helped Mom with all of the decorations and details.
Invitations were bee-utiful and the flowers with bees were so cute. The topiaries and laterns were so elegant. The memory/advice book also nicely done. Please enjoy the photos and memories.
~Melissa

Amazing Angkor

We spent our last day of temple hopping at Angkor Wat. It really is an impressive sight.
The crowds are always there from sunrise to sunset.

It was Saturday when we visited and there were at least a dozen weddings going on at the temple site. Each wedding party had their own color theme.

Apsara reliefs at Angkor. There are over 2000 Apsara reliefs there.

Angkor Wat

Ten days in Siem Reap to see the temples.
We hired a car on our first of three temple days ($80) taking us out to see the outer temples. It was an exhausting 10 hours.

We spent the next two days doing the inner temples, closer to Siem Reap, by Tuk-tuk ($15 per day).

Five for one dollar, five for one dollar. No thank you we say. Ten for one dollar, ten for one dollar. We get in our tuk-tuk, then engine starts, OK twenty for one dollar.

Bayon temple

Luang Prabang

Boats lined up on the Mekong. About nine dollars for an hour, twenty-five for half a day.

Main street (Sisavangvong Road) Luang Prabang. The tallest buildings in town are three stories high, and there are only a couple of them. No big chain hotels or fast food outlets.

Monks parade around town all day long from temple to temple to who knows where.

The markets are always interesting. Pots of fish, buckets of snails, and crates of what looks like giant cockroaches.

This is the guest house we stayed at. Small, only nine rooms. We're upstairs in the middle. The people were all very friendly and they made us dinner on our last night there. They had to tone down the spiciness for us but it was still too spicy hot.

Not sure what those things are on the left.