With not too much left to do before leaving for the airport a little later today, we decided to take a morning hike up to the top of Phou Si mountain. It’s in the center of the town and provides a beautiful 360 degree view of everything around for miles. Shortly after starting the climb we came across an old lady selling birds in a small woven cage. Apparently the idea is to release them at the top to symbolize your love. Well, I’m just making the love part up since we don’t speak Laotian and don’t know what she was saying, but it obviously must symbolize something so why not make Joy happy. We released the birds and headed back down and were shocked to see IT WORKED! Right in our path back down were two lizards making hot and heavy whoopee.