A day in the life

2:00am Not sleeping well, it is dark, the mattress is hard and the rooster is crowing...
4:10am Still not sleeping well, must have had msg again...darn. Do love this kitch bed spread. There is no light, must be cause the mountains next to the chinese border are outside.
6:00am Still to weak to ride in the heat, new plan, will get as far as I can to Luang prabang on bus.
6:35am Tuk Tuk to Luang Nam Ta! Score the first bus leaves at 8am, I am paying the same price and it is just me. I am going to make the 9:30 bus to Luang Prabang! I am blessed.
7:30am Stop at village to pick up 8 women and produce
7:50am More women, more produce
8:30am Surely there is no more room in the taxi but we have stopped and are waiting...darn...
9:00am on the Main street, dash for tuk tuk to the bus station.
9:10am get to bus station! What a cue!
9:12am Get a bagette
9:12am Hey there is the argentinian couple from Karadiri. They live in Barcelona and are travelling for a year. Cool, first people I have meet twice.
9:30am Bus is meant to leave, but they are packing the minibus, moving people out of the big bus. There is not enough room! 10- 12 hours in the packed mini bnus. No way.
9:35am Myself and the couple start to raise hell, trying to explain we dont fit...."The bus is broken" we are told, get in the mini bus. Classic lie meaning we dont want to use bus as there are not enough people. We fiight with the people from the bus company - it is getting animated.
10:00am The fight is gaining momemtum now, everyone at the station is involved. We are yelling across the crowd. People have come to watch.
10:15am We are tag teaming on "talking" to the station manager. Argentinian guy says "its a fucking lie" within a few centimetres of laos mans face, this is one of the first times the man looses his composure. He smiles at everything you say and says you must wait! Makes us even angrier!!
10:25am We get people to get out of mini bus and stand in front of big bus.
10:30am We are all on the big bus and on the way to Luang Prabang.
1:30pm stop for lunch.
7:00pm get to luang prabang- Arr civilisation!
7:30pm get to guest house, suprise Katherine and go out for dinner. WIth the excitement of so much food to choose from eat spring rolls and indian. Feel ill after (most food and only food not bread have eatten in three days).
9:30pm fall asleep.