San Francisco to New York...the long way.

Next stop, Laos - we started off in Vientiane, the capital.  As you can see in the first few photos, we practically had a private plane all to ourselves and 3 other travellers - we weren’t quite sure why they didn’t cancel this flight, but were also not going to argue with it!  Vientiane was interesting - we got there during the Laos New Year, which basically just means there are water fights on every main street.  Obviously, as foreigners, we were targets, so we spent most of the day walking quickly (apparently I wear the pants as Tooch took it upon himself to use me as a water shield) and hiding out in restaurants along the street to watch and take photos.  We spent one night in Vientiane and moved on to Vang Vieng.  This is an interesting town in that it is packed with western backpackers that are either still in college, or are just attempting to prolong their college experience - the level of partying is none like we’ve ever seen.  We again watched from the sidelines as the rickety ziplines hung from skinny trees over the river, bordering some seriously sharp rock did not exactly call to us.