I seem to have left off on Don Det, an island in southern Laos. This area is called 4000 islands, and I didn't count but there are many. At this point in the trip we could have biked all around and seen new islands everyday and such. My body wasn't up for that so I basically did nothing. Not true, I worked on my beads did yoga read and played cards. Definitely frequenting the hammocks, and with a good restaurant across the street we barely left the guest house. Eric got sick unfortunately, but at least we were stationary and not traveling. I am glad he got better in a timely manner as it is loads easier to relax and enjoy the vacation when well. It was really nice to have such a great group staying at the same guest house. We all got along well so it was basically a mini-community. Apart from days of relaxing we also biked to a waterfall on the next island over. Nice but not really a swimming waterfall as it was huge. Beautiful though. We also had a truly international card game. We played Euchre, a Michigan game with folks from Iceland, Finland and the US, using Belgian cards in Laos. Fun times. I never did go swimming in the Mekong but considering everyone who lives on the river bathes in it and the dead pig I saw floating in the river as we left, I don't think I wanted to.