Some of these photos are prime examples of enthusiastic English, some highlight cultural differences, and others are simply funny in that "school yard humor" sort of way. No matter, each of these photos has made us smile, and perhaps they'll make you smile too!

For a few seconds, Jessica disappears entirely from view. She surfaces a moment later, and I pause to fire off a few photos before plunging back into the pool myself. The water is bracingly cold on such a hot, sticky day. And it is of course just astonishingly blue.

When we arrived in the small town of Luang Prabang in northern Laos we had no idea they had a night market. It was only as we walked down their main street in the late afternoon on our first day there that we learned they had one.

Laos is peaceful, tranquil even, and the people are lovely. There’s even a saying the French coined when they were in this part of the world describing the differences between Laos and two of its neighbors: "The Vietnamese plant the rice, the Cambodians watch it grow, and the Laos listen to it."