Just typed yesterday's blog while sitting poolside with a beer while the girls take a nap. Its 4pm, its been 100% cloudy all day, so we didn't have a sunrise this morning, but it was probably 75 degrees this morning and we were about 1 of 3 small groups of people in Tra Prohm. The movie Tomb Raider has some scenes that were filmed at Tra Prohm, so we were able to take some cool photos with no one else in the back ground. It also gave the place a sense of ...

The rest of the world sleeps on hard beds, as we've discovered on our previous trips, and Vietnam is no exception. The hard beds are great for your back, but not your hips, shoulders, or # of hours of sleep. I'm wide awake at 4:45 without an alarm clock, so I try to catch up on some blogging while the girls sleep...another 45 minutes and I can get some sunrise photos. I wake the girls to start getting ready for the day as I leave for the roof. I get a cou...

How many ways can you use the phrase "come on"?At least 4 that I know of:- Come on... - incredulous disbelief- Come on? - a lite, airy question- Come on - a command or request for someone to follow you, like a wife or daughter- Come on - (Coom Uun) Vietnamese for thank youThe most useful phrase on the streets of Vietnam and in the market = "No Coom Uun". Its not the actual way of saying no thank you, but its extremely effective.Today is a leisure day around Saigo...

So once getting through immigration, we clear customs with ease an enter China....its 5:55a, and our tour guide isn't meeting us at Starbucks until 7 (I knew i should have told him 6:15!) oh well, lets check out Starbucks in China and see if its any different than the States...nope, same overpriced, uninspiring coffee. $17 for 2 talls and a scone. As we're sitting there lamenting our overpriced coffee, I say to Heather, "we have to make sure we find a McD...

Check-in at IAH was mostly uneventful, but of course we got the "hook-up" in the check-in line, which only meant that despite the coordinator's best intentions we ended up in the slowest line...and then of course our bags were overweight because of our last minute decision to buy new luggage 3 hours before we left! Overall Air China gets a solid B for their maiden voyage, check-in was slow, takeoff was 30 minutes delayed, and they didn't control the board...