Here is a different kind of clay pot. This clay pot has rice, meat, tofu, carrot, mushroom, and green veggies. It suprising tastes somewhat like a chicken and rice casserole. My mother is picking out the parts she doesn't care for. And notice the bottle of hand sanitizer on the table. That is one of those things that goes with you wherever you go.

My mother was quite fascinated by the way they made the noodles. They squeeze the batter through the dealy flig and into boiling water. Wait a bit and you have pasta(rice noodles).

I took my parents to sample different kinds of local cuisine. In 90degree heat with high humidy we decided to eat in a suana. Here they are cooking noodles in clay pots. It was pretty tasty!

The Tour de France my not pass through our city, but we do have the green flag bicycle brigade. I really have no idea what they are doing, but it looks like they are having fun.

This picture is taken from our guest bedroom window. It is a lovely view of the city dump, or recycling center or something. Sometimes we get the nice smell of burning plastic coming through the window. Oh well, at least it is a colorful view, and if you look up you can see the hills.

This is a picture of the bus stop outside the bus station in my new city. Yes folks, no horse drawn carts allowed on this road.

While on our tourist adventure, mom got to use a squatty for the first time (and I wouldn't call it the nicest squatty in the world). The second squatty she used must have had a magnetic attraction to her sun glasses because they fell right off her head and into the little bowl. But, my mom needed her glasses so she reached in and got them. Here she is washing them off. What a good sport. By the end of her time here it was a piece of cake, and she got to use one of the worst I have ever seen.