Day 7- Biking Around Luang Prabang

So today Katie and I decided to rent bikes after our extremely peacful breakfast at Utopia. We tried to copy the Eat, Pray, Love advice of just sitting and doing nothing, I was pretty bad and just wanted to read my book (The Secret Histories by Donna Tart - it's really good!).
So we biked around the little peninsula. It's almost a little island surrounded by the Mekong River but not quite. We looked at some more temples. They are all just so detailed and incredible, it's ridiculous! And there are SO many. After a while we couldn't go into them anymore just because we felt like we had seen so many.
We grabbed at a little local place by the river and then biked back home (hoping to avoid the looming rain cloud). Thankfully we made it just in time and it started pouring down right after we got inside. So we took this time to take our first shower in about 3 days (swimming in waterfalls and the Mekong River counts doesn't it?).
After the rainstorm walked across the Communist bridge (there are a bunch of communist flags here, we don't know why, I should probably look that up). It was super high up but had a great view of the river. Thankfully it was cooler right after the rainstorm. Then we went off biking again!
So a little later, after returning the bikes ($2.50 for the day!) we went and grabbed dinner. I must add this is after having a brief snack (rice spring rolls for me, a croissant for Katie), additionally we had a couple of beers- it was our last night. Also we had walked down through the night market (we made this rule that we have to walk through the whole market before we bought anything- so we didn't buy the first things we saw). We happened to stumble upon this place called the Coconut Garden, which had been reccommended in the airplane magazine. It was pretty yum, my favourite part was when this stry cat just came and sat on me and fell asleep! I felt like all the animals loved me, espescially because earlier that day this dog was following us all through the city. So fun.
Ok so we allowed ourselves to go to the nightmarket one last time, with a set budget (which of course I went over - but only by like $3!). I bought two shirts, and two bags. It's all so adorable and cheap, you just want it all! But a succesful day all in all of finally exploring Luang Prabang.