The bus didn’t leave until 1:00 for us, so we had an easy morning getting snack and breakfast before heading to the bus stop. We piled in and it seemed like maybe it wasn’t such a bad idea to take a real bus instead of a mini-bus as there was a bit more room. We were now realizing that we were missing the mens hockey gold medal game and it was bugging us so much. Canada vs. USA, in Vancouver… oh my god!
Anyways, 4 or so hours later we were in Vientiane. We then switched buses and ohh crap. It was the slow boat all over. There were no more room in any real seat. There were a couple seats which had been crammed in between where leg room really should be and we were expected to sit there (Amy and I.) Amy was all set to get off and try to get on one of the other buses until we saw the plastic stools coming in to the isle for people to sit on. At that point the seat with no room looked really good.
We bent our selves into place. My legs over in Amy’s area, Amy hanging out into the isle… it was quite something to see to people as tall as us fit in there.
I should take the chance to mention, this is a 25 hour ride ahead of us.
We drove for 6 hours and then over nighted for about 6 hours. We didn’t have a chance to sleep as we needed to get off the bus and we just played cards all night.