thanks for the comments, ma! save me LOTS of hot chilis! can't wait for your cooking! We had all bought longyis by this point, and we actually wore them to the airport the next day (we were running out of clean clothes anyways). the boys were hilarious, brian wore the longyi as though he's been wearing skirts his entire life but tom just couldn't really get used to it...in fact, he couldn't bring himself to NOT wear a full pair of shorts underneath the longyi, which is where he kept his wallet...so everytime he needed money, etc, he'd pull the skirt ALL the way up and reach in his pockets, it was definitely one of the funniest things ever to watch the locals react to that. The security at the airport was tighter today - no,
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