Hello all.....We are ready for a longer post now that we've had some much needed sleep. Everything went pretty smoothly travelling the last couple of days. Our first flight left Buffalo at 7:15 Thursday morning on the smallest commercial jet plane we've ever seen. The plane sat two on one side and one on the other. Thankfully there was no delay on the tarmac in that plane, it could have gotten ugly really fast! They loaded us into the slingshot and sent us on our way on a short (again thankfully) flight to JFK in NYC. After a four hour layover we left for Seoul, Korea on Korean Air. That was a long one! Those of you who have already made that flight, I'm sure, remember how much fun it was. In theory, a 14 hour flight was going to be a great time to catch up on sleep. In reality? about the only thing that slept was my butt. I do have to say though, we have never met a friendlier, more accommodating staff than the people with Korean Air. We were very impressed with them. After finally making it to Korea, we found, much to our delight, that the seats at the connecting gate were perfect for napping! Our layover was only a couple hours and we finally found ourselves aboard our final flight to Hanoi. Then, a few minutes after we got into our seats, we found ourselves getting OFF our final flight to Hanoi! We were told that the mechanic said the plane could not fly. Umm...did anyone ask him before they boarded the plane? So now we're getting a pit in our stomachs. How long are we going to be here? Is the person who's supposed to pick us up at the airport in Hanoi going to hang around? ....But Korean air came through again. They got a new plane in, transferred the luggage, food etc., got the plane ready to fly and had us aboard in less than in hour! You can imagine how relieved we were. I would bet that delay would have been much longer at JFK (who by the way we were not impressed with in the least). That last 4 hour flight brought us to Hanoi and here we are.
Coming up......the ride from the airport to the hotel.
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im the first one again....that whole thing sounds so cool. i cant believe the streets are that busy, and that power line thing looks soo cool! imagine an october storm, in veitnam, that would have been a state of emergency. I love you guys..have fun, tell tanner i love him.
love,
Bri
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