my depest apologies

Ok well im so so sorry and i know it has been a good while since this blog has been looked at or added to. I hope you will understand that we are both lazy and rather busy.
Right well lets go back to our departure for Vietnam. We left Vientiene early to make our way to a home stay near the vietnam boarder. This long journey consisted of loads of our group taking pictures of each other sleeping, singing and playing card games! we then arrived near to the village where we were to spend the night and took B52 bomshell boats to the little village. However when we got to the litlle village they rally werent that interested in us at all, which we found rather odd as usually we are just stared at. The group was diveded between 3 homes, in which we were given mats on the floor and mosquito nets (although a lot of god they did!) so after taking endless amounts of pictures of children and animals, some of us lay on some mats outside drinking nice cold beer laos, while others played card games. We then had a dinner prepared for us, which consisted of rice, noodles, curries and vegetables and was so yum! Although we were all rather disapointed not to be eating with the locals, as they wanted to eat with themselves. After diner we were given the chance to ask questions which wasnt really that insightful as our local guide was translating for us and kept answering for them saying "Oh they wont know that" or "I dont think they those types of ideas", so the general conversation condesended into Canadian Kate asking all of us questions about our lives. We later all had to go to our seperate houses, all the boys in one and the girls dived into to 2 houses, me and the 3 kates were put in the town Chief's house, whose wife walked around topless and the cheif snored so loudly - which added to the whole fun of the experience!
The next mrning we left the village at 6 am to get a 13 hour bus journey to Ninh Binh in Vietnam! Immagration was fine and rather strict, and when we got to other side we changed bus to a rather rusty looking one - which did not scream safety! None the less we continued our journey through horrendous downfalls of rain and crazy vietnamese driving! Thats something to warn people about when they go to Vietnam - they drive like idiots, we were literally holding on to our seats! The scenery was so beautiful and green as we descended into the Vietnam valleys and also quite derelict compare to other places we have been to. We stopped at a place for lunch in which everyone literally stopped eating and stared at us- rather strange!
Eventually we got to rainy Ninh Binh were we spent the bight before departing to Halong Bay the next day.