Most of the days that we get on a plane and fly 4 hours are hard a bit but when you are in Vietnam with people all around you yelling in there language it is a bit harder.
The first time that was hard was getting to Vietnam. I woke up at 3 in the morning and picked my bags up from my room where I had put them and had a really amazing breakfast (compared with the ones we have here) then get driven to the air port by Nathon who is our house-sitter which was really nice at 3am. We got there and checked our bags at the desk, said good by to Nathon and got on our flight to Chicago and (still tired) got to our next gate and waited for 2 or 3 hours till our next flight. I passed the time by playing games and Skyping. The plane came and we got on a deadly flight (aka 15 hour) to Hong Kong. It was a 747 and it was huge!! There were a lot of people! We were in the middle of it all and out of the 15 hours I napped 4. I was about in a coma when we made it to Hong Kong and got out to Chinese people yelling strange sounds and smoking. I looked out side and saw at least 800,000 motor bikes because it was the international airport. 9 in 10 people have at least 1 motor bike in Vietnam because cars are expensive. People still have cars though. Then we waited at least 3 or 4 hours it the airport and played soccer with a mini world cup ball I got for Christmas, got fast food from the Hong Kong fast food (which was delicious...) and played rummy 500 with cards.
Our flight arrived and we got onto a 1 hour flight to Hanoi. The police checked our papers to see if he wanted to let us into Vietnam. He did so we caught a taxi to hotel Tung Trang. The driver was crazy and I did not get a good first ride in a car in Vietnam.
All in all traveling to Vietnam is wicked hard and I am excited to come back but I fear the plane ride!! because it is so tiring!! :) JM
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