July 8th, 2015
All’s well that ends well 😅
So here I sit in the departure lounge at the Luang Prabang airport. Everything turned out ok!! One wonky moment for me when the immigration guys ASKED me if I stayed at the Saynamkhan in Luang Prabang. I was thinking could my worst nightmare be true? Regardless, I answered “yes” and he nodded then went back to his “mysterious whatever they do behind the counter thing”. They always make you stand way back on the 2 footprints on the floor. They take your photo when you come and when you leave. But even when the camera isn’t doing its thing, you have to stay on the footprints. When we were arriving, I may have inadvertently leaned up on the counter while they were “doing the mysterious behind the counter thing” and they shooed me off pretty fast. It’s the same everywhere we go here. Not just Laos.
So All’s well that ends well and my biggest concern of the moment is…how do I get myself in there?????
Instead of out here?
I think I’m a VIP, just ask Troy….poor guy has to deal with me 😉
Yet here I sit…
I’m still happy, see my happiness oozing out of that airport selfie? It’s really relief, but that is often easily confused with general happiness! Perhaps it was my eagerness to get out of the vicinity of my hotel, or my rule following tendencies but I insisted on being to the airport two hours early for our flight. It is an international flight after all. It takes 2 hours to get from Bangkok from here. So we are here in plenty of time. The snack vendor supplies you with a free wifi code if you buy something, so that is fate intervening on my behalf. I had 25,500 kip left in my wallet and I was planning on putting it in the tip box at the hotel before I left, but in my general haste (AKA- not looking back) I didnt. So I had the required 25,000 kip for a moderately overpriced ice cream so that I could secure the code so I could at the least let my #1 fans know I’m not either bankrupt or in a Laos jail. As I told my mom this morning, I would make a terrible terrible prisoner. I also now know I would make a terrible POW after the whole foot massage thing….
