Vientiane, Laos December 22,2015

I will be unable to include any photos on this blog until after my return to Canada on January 7. While I can get them on this laptop, I am unable to import them from the file to this site. Yesterday, after a lot of city traveling, I went on this site and removed almost half of the older postings, going back and removing everything before 2014. Yesterday, I hired a taxi for a few hours and had a good overview of the city, and of some of its famous sites. The best way to see it all is to walk, but that would be a lot as it gets rather hot during mid day. I do have lots of photos for when I can show them. Upon the completion of the tour, we ended up at a pizza place for lunch. It was the first time the driver had been there...it is too expensive for locals. This morning, before it got hot, went for a walk through the inner part of the city and to a major park along the Mekong River. It was clean, and I was able to get many pictures of plants, flowers etc. On the way back to the hotel, I felt obligated to stop at Swensen's and make sure their strawberry sundaes were as good as in Thailand....they are. The web works good here, no problems. Tomorrow, it will be the hotel shuttle to the airport for seven A.M. and a nine fifteen departure for Luang Prabang north of here a one hour flight.I have a three hour stopover, then west to Chiang Mai Thailand. Based upon the wifi problems in Thailand, I am not sure how much I will be able to send. Time will tell. I wish everyone a happy holiday season, and all a very Merry Christmas.