Friends, Family Guy, Fun

Day 4 of our trip was probably the most epic day so far.

We met this Irish couple (Ronan and Lindsay) in our tuk tuk in Vientiane, and then bumped into them up here again. Had an epic night on the buckets first night we got to Vang Vieng - pretty rude not to when there are free buckets @ Bucket Bar from 9-10pm. So we all got buckets of Whisky, Red Bull and 7up. Dangerous combination. After 2 of them you're pretty well floored. Ended up at Limbo bar, where if you could successfully limbo under the lowest height, you got a free bucket or beer. Oh, did i mention the bar was on fire? Ronan decided he'd jump over the bar. This was sweet for him - he got a free beer from it, the guy who tried it next wasn't so successful... he landed straight on the flaming bar and had to be dragged off it... he won't be feeling to great in the morning. Anyways, the last drink ruined Ronan and was on verge of comatose by about 2am, and Tuffy and I called it quits round 3ish. Oh, one strange thing is that all the restaurants seem to either play Friends all day or Family Guy all day. Random, but awesome.

Tubing has got to be one of the most awesomest things going man. how did it take this long to discover? Floating down a river on an inflatable tube with beers, riverside bars pumping music and dragging to for free shots, rope swings, flying foxes... the list goes on. I was feeling like rubbish from the night before, but we manned up, got our tubes and after about 3 or 4 beers, was back on it. We started round 1pm and by the time after our second bar, it was 5pm... tubes had to be back by 6 to reclaim your full deposit. there was no way we were gonna make that, but if we had them back by 8pm, we would only lost 20,000 kip. We left Ronan and Lindsay at the second bar, while Asty and I decided to tube the rest of the river. Most people tuk tuk back, but we thought it'd be no prob to float the whole way back... we shud hav listened to the crowd. As light started to fade, and we had to start dodging the long boats coming up stream, we pulled to the side of the river, where another keen tuber, was perched up. She tried to do the same with her mates, except she had boosted ahead with no money, so was stuck. All three of us were bartering with this tuk tuk driver to get him to take us back to town. He eventually caved an gave us a ride. Apparently, we still had about 2.5 km to go on river before we'd get near town... We made it back to town and managed to get part of our deposit back. great success!

Anyways, we were pretty knackered after a day on the beers and tubing, as well as being horrendously hungover, so we called it quits.

Last day in Vang Vieng today, before heading up the road to Luang Probang tomorrow. Yeaaaooww!