O.K. People allow me to moan for a second. I decided to treat myself to an amazing resort/spa in the lush hills of Laos. So after a 4 hour delay on my flight into Laungprahang the van picks me up and takes me to this lovley hotel. But where is the amazing pool I ask "At the resort, we will shuttel you over" O.K. I say. There is of all things a community center next door playing really loud music, kareokee versions of American Pop. Then my room is next to a schol playground with eaily 50 kids screaming and kicking a plastic water bottle around. You know me, the kids I could tolerate but...Like a Virgin in Laos. When I go down to complain with a "Cool Heart" mind you, after airing my issues one by one there is dead silence. It must be the fact that peopel in Laos do not speak English. Then they say "would you like to be moved to the resor?." I reply with glee..."There are rooms at the resort, yes please".
I get to the resort and this is the place that I saw on line and it is amazing. I go to sit by the pool and the pool bar is blarring Lionel Richie's Hello, is it me your looking for. No, I yell it is a career you are looking for. I explain to the bar-boy that I would love some SILENCE. Whe he shuts off the raidio there is an amzing sound of a waterfall in the mountains, roostes crowing far away and birds. I sit and suddenly I get how throught Asia American music is played or TV or worse Asian Video's.
When I took what looked to be a lovley ride up the river for 5 hours to Siem Riep. I get in this boat {that looked nothing like the brochure at all} and this ricketty ass boat that was out of the African Queen was such a relic I had no idea how we would make it 5 hours up the river. Once this boat starts and that is a story I have no time to share, suddenly a TV in the middle of the front of the boat starts to play MTV the Asian version. The fact that they could hardly get the seats together but yet they managed to hook up a TV is beyond me. I don't want to hear American music, I really like their muisic, it is why I didn't bring an I Pod. Everything is geered to America. They even had a McDonalds in Thailand with a Ronald McDonald statue outside in a Buddist prayer position. How wrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrong is that, let me count the ways.
So my friends I don't think I have Kevitched too much on this blog. All the boy wants is quite and for America to fad away. But I can not control what I can not control. For real, as my nice Sophia would say. Yet my heart is cool, I can still laugh at it all becasue after all, I have the money and time to sit in a lush spa and be irked by the music of Lionel.
More later and much love, I leave for Hanoi on Monday.
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