Lao Handicrafts

Toom's daughter's birthday was today, so after the usual crap Southeast Asian hotel breakfast, we went out to buy presents. Rick and I settled on stuffed animals. I found a dog as round and big as a bowling ball. Rick settled for a monkey, I think. The one thing that impressed me was the 30-cent wrapping job that the shop girls did for us. If they were working in Macy's, they would be pulling down 30-grand in one Christmas season doing wrapping. (That is not a pre-formed bow in that photo... but completely hand-made.)