Today really began at 3am when Andy woke up and couldn’t figure out why he was sleeping in my bed (which was now very wet) and not his own. Cindy had brought us up some fries and pizza the evening before (when the other two were still passed out)… we dragged those out and sat on the beds, eating cold food, whilst I filled everyone in on the events of the previous day!
Andy went back to his own room after that, Kelly and I went back to sleep until 7am. Ouchy muscles this morning. Breakfast and then off into the bus for a four hour trip to Vientiane. Not much to say about this trip – the seats were comfy, the air conditioning was good – everyone listened to music or told each other about all the horribly dangerous things they’d witnessed at tubing the day before, including more people being carted off to hospital. Interesting stories indeed.
We arrived at around 12ish – this hotel is nice, the air conditioning actually works and the lobby is full of inviting comfy chairs. We dumped our bags in our rooms and then headed out to see the city. We only have an afternoon and a morning so we wanted to see as much as we could – turned out we really didn’t need to be so enthusiastic.
Lunch at a local place – I didn’t like mine, couldn’t figure out whether my noodles were undercooked, overcooked or meant to actually be like that. Eh, I didn’t each much. After that we basically just wandered around the town in the heat… there were some temples, some statues, some antiques and the National Museum, none of which really stood out or held my interests very long.
It is certainly a very sleep capital city, by South East Asian standards at least. Not much really to do, more of a stop over point (also the reason why Vang Vieng is so crazy – such a contrast to everywhere else). We were back at the hotel again by three. Hmmm. Time for some relaxing in the air conditioned room.
At 4.30pm six of us met up again – hmm what to do? In the end we decided to go to the place we had booked for dinner. Sure we weren’t meant to be there until 7pm, but that didn’t matter. We sat around for the two and bit hours before the others arrived, just drinking and chatting. Our first beer tower made an appearance – I just drank wine, but the tower was certainly amusing!
At 7pm everybody else arrived for dinner. I had roast pork dipped in honey – yummy! More drinking and chatting for another two hours – it has actually been really nice to have a day to relax after the craziness of yesterday. It also makes it hit home that we are leaving this group in three nights - it has been such a lovely fun group and I’ve become very attached to it, a couple of people in particular! It is odd to think that our little group will never be together again.
At 9pm, everyone wanted to go back to the hotel, including Kelly. Paul and Andy went out for another drink, I tried to rustle up a game of cards, but no, people wanted to sleep, so I am spending the rest of the evening typing this and relaxing in my room.
New country tomorrow!
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