Yes, you will never believe it. To our despise we are in sdijffjdfi[gjiogj[ijg Bangkok again. Its 4am we just arrived from an overnight bus from Koh Tao and we just spent an hour debating on whether or not we are going to get accommodation or not. We decided with not- we are catching a bus to Laos in 15 hours, its 4am may as well save some money. We have parked ourselves in an Internet cafe which killed an hour, then on to make our way to sleep in Subway for 3 hours only after buying a bottle of water. Lets just say the walk out of there was Awkward.
This time wasn't so bad, we were hot and sweaty but the tour agency let us keep our bags there which was a massive weight off our shoulder and target off our backs.
We decided it was about time we seen the Grand palace and finally got there so you know what they say 3 times a charm.
7 pm rolled around and not just in time because we weren't prepared to tell the 15 hundredth person we do not want a bloody suit. We got on the bus which had 5 people and we departed on the road again as happy as can be.
We are on our way to Laos and quite excited, now everything so far has always seemed to be amazing but there is always some sort of glitch. We got to the Thai- Laos border only to be taken from the massive line, walked straight through thinking 'how great is this' only to be brought into border control as we overstayed a day of our visa and were fined 500 baht each. (good thing we used subway as our accommodation eh)
Finally, got the bus into Laos' capital city Vientiane (which is where we are now, but haven't been the whole time) We spent 2 nights here at Mixay guest house- the feeling in this town, there is something that clicks in your head that makes you move 10 times slower than normal, the people are much friendlier than in Thailand we have noticed but will rip you off. Can we complain when we are still only spending the equivalent of about 20 American dollars a day and their wages is less than 1 dollar a day. We have to remind ourselves sometimes as when spending kip your money goes fast.
We exchanged 100 American dollars into Kip and got the fattest wad of cash I have ever held in my hand, it was great.
We are heading tubing tomorrow, in Vang Vieng- Wait until you hear.
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