Planes, Trains and Automobiles...
Natalie: Yesterday, Lauren and I spent 4 - 5 hours sorting through books and fabric not to mention everyone tugging at you at once. We spent the afternoon relaxing from the stress of it all with some crazy women that gave us pedicures and screamed a lot. I have to say that I am definitely eating my way through this place, the food is amazing. We have been eating a lot of fish and drinking about 2 litres of water a day...man, you really need it!
Lauren: Today Nat and I arranged for 2 drivers with Motor bikes to take us through some country side to My Son (MORE temples!) The ride was the highlight, taking us past villages and rice fields filled with ladies wearing their conical hats! Really beautiful and being closer to the ground (ie not on a bus) gives you a great new perspective of what's around. Definately a highlight and well worth the slight extra we paid to skip to crowded bus. The trip also included a stop at a pottery place where we both got to try our hand at the wheel, my attempt was a disgrace! Further on, we saw a silk weaving factory, pretty interesting, before stopping in a village to see rice paper being made - this was really great, we ate it in three different forms and the women here were just great (ie crazy) They had two pig pens, really clean (I have to say that everywhere is really clean) and while I wanted to take home a wee babe for a pet (they are very smart you know!) I think these ladies had something else in mind for my new little pink cutey wutey friends. Oh dear! (The pork was luuurvely!)
Natalie: Onto My Son, we were wondering why one of our drivers was not keen to come with us....we soon discovered that at 12.30 in the middle of the day it is kinda hot (yes I am blonde, no comments please) by approximately 12.35 I was drowning in my own sweat and was wondering why I would even consider going to another temple considering we had seen a few and I have the 350 photos to prove it...cough. Anyway, lacking water, almost dilerious and seriously panting I was not in the mood for the jokes coming from our driver. Took charge, and we left (after seeing it all of course). I might add at this point that it was about 35 degrees in the shade. We headed back to town after lunch and went back for our first fitting in the afternoon (excellent idea) no air con, in a cubicle the size of you and a million people walking to and fro (marvellous) it is shall we say...different trying on a fully lined suit with shirt...I have quite a few pieces and it is not something that I would like to go through again. I did get a black suite fully lined in hot pink...sick one.
Off tomorrow for a cooking course and more sights.
Lauren: Today Nat and I arranged for 2 drivers with Motor bikes to take us through some country side to My Son (MORE temples!) The ride was the highlight, taking us past villages and rice fields filled with ladies wearing their conical hats! Really beautiful and being closer to the ground (ie not on a bus) gives you a great new perspective of what's around. Definately a highlight and well worth the slight extra we paid to skip to crowded bus. The trip also included a stop at a pottery place where we both got to try our hand at the wheel, my attempt was a disgrace! Further on, we saw a silk weaving factory, pretty interesting, before stopping in a village to see rice paper being made - this was really great, we ate it in three different forms and the women here were just great (ie crazy) They had two pig pens, really clean (I have to say that everywhere is really clean) and while I wanted to take home a wee babe for a pet (they are very smart you know!) I think these ladies had something else in mind for my new little pink cutey wutey friends. Oh dear! (The pork was luuurvely!)
Natalie: Onto My Son, we were wondering why one of our drivers was not keen to come with us....we soon discovered that at 12.30 in the middle of the day it is kinda hot (yes I am blonde, no comments please) by approximately 12.35 I was drowning in my own sweat and was wondering why I would even consider going to another temple considering we had seen a few and I have the 350 photos to prove it...cough. Anyway, lacking water, almost dilerious and seriously panting I was not in the mood for the jokes coming from our driver. Took charge, and we left (after seeing it all of course). I might add at this point that it was about 35 degrees in the shade. We headed back to town after lunch and went back for our first fitting in the afternoon (excellent idea) no air con, in a cubicle the size of you and a million people walking to and fro (marvellous) it is shall we say...different trying on a fully lined suit with shirt...I have quite a few pieces and it is not something that I would like to go through again. I did get a black suite fully lined in hot pink...sick one.
Off tomorrow for a cooking course and more sights.
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