Here I Am

So I finally made it to Viet Nam. Its been an interesting trip so far. The plane ride, which I thought was 12hrs or less to Taipei, was a horrible 14.25 hrs. We had a delay on takeoff which took us about 15 extra minutes, strong head winds for most of the flight and to top it off Taipei's visibility was, from what I could speculate, about 1/2mi visibility and cloud cover at about 100ft off the runway.

We get to the first airport and we needed to switch planes, but we first had to go to a "special" ticket booth for transfers and get new boarding passes for a code-share airline of EVA. After that was settled we got lost on our way to the gate, kinda, but we got there just in time before they closed the door. That led to another 3.5 hr flight into Viet Nam.

I stepped off the plane at about 9:45 am local time and was greeted with 90ish degrees of heat and a bucket of water running off of my body from the humidity. It was almost unbarable to get off the plane, I almost did a 180 and asked them to take me back! I got through imigration ok but Vicki's mom had slipped a $5 bill in her Passport to I guess try and get by faster or something. HAHA. They started to question here about everything! I was afraid she was never going to leave. It was so funny.

When we got through everything I was thinking to myself "where is Gia Tuyet going to pick us up?". We got to the pickup area of the airport and it was like this huge wall of people waiting for their families to get off the plane. Like when you watch those movies of famous people getting off the plane and all the fans are there. Take that and times it by 1000. We find our family that was picking us up and we were quicky taken away, all of Vicki's family memebers were there to take our bags and through them into the xe om oto (car taxi).

So far it had been very interesting.