Vietnam/Cambodia

So we finally started our tour of Vietnam. We drove to HaLong Bay, got on a cruise ship, and then kayaked through some caves where we saw a couple of monkeys in the Battle Royale with 2 crows. The room we had was actually really nice and it came with built-in stabilizers so Stephanie only got sick 3 times on the ship. The food? Not so great, but we have broken into the peanut butter and Stephanie is already starting to eat only rice. Today we went to see a very famous cave. Regrettably, Steph got stuck and is now well on her way to becoming a permanent stalagtite. Then, it was on to Ninh Binh where we climbed up to Heaven That's a dragon at the top of the mountain, and if you look closely you'll see Calisi riding it. Tomorrow--more caves and a search party looks for my favorite stalagtite.

Hanoi has about 7 million people, and about 10 million motorbikes. I kid you not, riding around in Kathmandu was a cakewalk compared to this place. No one even comes close to caring about the rules of the road. No stop lights, no stop signs, and a jillion motorbikes everywhere. We took a tour today...on motorbikes. of course, Steph got the good driver. You can't see me because I'm underneath a bus. The tour was really fun. Went to see the temple where Confucious sat (Confucious say woman who fly upside down in plane have crack up), as well as the mausoleum of HoChi Min whose birthday is the single most important day on the history of the world...correct, May 19. Then, we stopped for ice cream and learned just how inexpensive things are here Take a guess how much for 4, one scoop cones? Winner gets a $10 gift card from DQ if you can come within $1. Our tour guides were two adorable college students who drove like Evel Knieval.

yea! We finally left the U.S. We have a 5 hour layover in Seoul. At the airport, they Have this little robot that goes around talking to people giving directions, telling you where your gate is, and all sorts of other information.

well, We decided to forgo our trip abroad. We are going to spend 16 days in San Francisco, seeing the magnificent city and occasionaly sitting in airport lounges just for fun. Turns out that the gate agent in Indianapolis lied to us about having a seat from San Francisco to Seoul so we ended up spending the night here and we're supposed to leave in the morning. I have absolutely no reason to think that there is even an airplane the goes to Seoul, and we may end up hitching a ride on one of those US navy planes that carry tanks that spit them out of the bottom of the plane. Neither of us are parachuted for quite some time so that should be fun. We will update this blog once we've left the United States, if that ever happens.

So for those of you who know us, there is such a thing called the Litz trip. It seems as if something always happens to us that makes the trip extra special. Here we are not even on day one of the vacation and it's already become a Litz trip because our flight to Chicago was canceled, so we're now going to San Francisco first. Hopefully things run more smoothly for the remainder of the trip; otherwise we'll be coming back as single instead of married.

4 days until we're off to Vietnam and Cambodia, the land of horrific drivers, dreaded food diseases, breathtaking ruins, and all sorts of expatriated Americans. And, yes, my passport is current.