a few funny catch ups

When we left the elephants, it looked like I had much of the dust on my shoes...so for 2.50 I had my shows shined on the street.  This mean that some young man put soap in a lid and used a tooth brush to scrub my shoes.  Ok, they were dirt..but passable.  When we walked today, I ended up with about 3 inches of goop clinging to the bottom and top... we washed the shoes in a creek...but it did little..  we tried scraping it and that did little....so for 30,000 dong.... we had them washed a nd dried... while I had a beer in slippers.... I am exhausted.....zzzz