We’re in kalaw right now, it’s a small town that seems to be pretty much only a halfway point to the next destination, whatever that may be.  There are signs about trekking, so maybe people come here to hike too. On the way here we stopped for lunch at a “truck stop” kind of restaurant, and the only reason I mention this is because of the waitress that was serving us. She was young, in fact she looked very young, but it turned out that she was 17, still very young. But I guess I smiled at her once too many times and she thought that I was flirting with her or something, but from then on she stuck to me for the remainder of the lunch. She stuck out her tongue at me, hid her face when I smiled, generally it was kind of weird, if not a little bit funny. I’ll include a photo of her. Anyone who knows me, knows that I smile a lot, and when I travel, I smile even more than usual. Here it appears that I’m flirting with the girls when I don’t really believe that I am.  I also took a picture of our driver’s helper, he’s young and I never noticed how sad he was until looking at the photo later. Now I can’t seem to shake his image from my head, he just looks so sad even though he’s smiling for the photo.

We got to Kalaw ahead of schedule and one of the first things we did was to head out to explore, pretty much standard. After about 30 minutes we were done, so we did another loop to see if there was something that we may have missed, 20 minutes later we decided that we had seen the city the first time and we might as well go have a beer. Little by little everyone from the group would stop by and have a drink with us, usually they would be walking by on their way back to the hotel and see us. I guess what I’m trying to say is that it turned out to be a lot of fun. So fun that after dinner we went and had more drinks. I ended up meeting a girl from Canada and for the rest of the night our group plus the Canadian girl hung out.  Great fun.