Seoul

Our 12 hour layover was great! We slept in the super quiet arrivals area, just splayed out on nice benches.

After a few hours I woke up and realized that we had forgotten our two bottles of vodka on the first plane. They found them for us but since they had been transferred out of the arrivals area they wouldn't let us bring them back in. So they offered to package them up and put them on as another luggage item for us. Hopefully they make it!

We took a subway to the downtown area, almost one hour for $4 each. We checked out the Gyeongbokgung palace and museum.

After we walked down the little river Cheonggyecheon that runs through Seoul.

We ate an intensely spicy seafood soup, it was great but WOW it was hot.

Now we're sitting on the plane, waiting to take off and see Vancouver again!

Goodbye Vietnam!

That's it! We spent our last day in Vietnam shopping for souvenirs, wandering markets, and eating street food.

We ended up going for Indian again because it was so good, it was good to really fill up on some nice curries.

Now Leah and I are sitting in the airport in Seoul, about to catch some sleep before our Seoul excursion during our 12 hour layover.

Connecting in Saigon

So Leah's brother Chris and I have been scheming. He was in Singapore on business, and we were working on a plan to have him surprise Leah in Vietnam.

It was all going to plan, until they wouldn't let Chris board the plane without a Vietnamese visa. That set him back a day, but on Friday morning he emailed me and we prepared for the surprise!

He was staying at the same hotel, so I told him to knock on our room 304. Chris emails, there is no room 304.  Uh oh.

I tell him to meet me in the lobby. We're both there, but neither of us are there. Go figure there is more than one Ngoc Minh hotel in Saigon.

So I figure I have to bust the surprise to Leah, and we rode a scooter out to meet Chris. After a breakfast reunion, we rented another scooter and the three of us headed out into the rain to visit the Chinatown markets.

That night we had a delicious Indian dinner, and then rented a private karaoke room for a few hours. That was fun!