A life...that's ordinary?: Vietnam and the remainder of SE Asia

Alright, alright. I suck at updating this thing. I know this. I'm sorry. Anyways.

I'm in Canada and have been since March 12. It's been good to be home however I havn't had much sitting on my ass time since I've been back. Travelling through SE Asia wasn't a holiday, it was almost work. I was tired when I got back home. I foolishly thought that once I got home I'd be able to relax. I was wrong. So far since I've been home I've been to Vancouver twice, 150 Mile House for the weekend, spent 4 days in a Northern fly-in logging camp and done more visiting than I ever have in such a condensed period. It's all been great though. I've seen people who I obviously hadn't seen in quite awhile. I caught up with relatives and friends and havn't complained (much) about my lack of rest time. I'll do that when I get to Korea.

My one recommendation for those planning on going to Canada for a visit. A month is not long enough if you've been gone for over a year and plan on being gone for another year plus. Give yourself 2 months. You won't be bored.

Ok, now it's time for the update. Which I've been dreading let me tell you. It's one of those things that you keep telling yourself you should do, but the longer you wait the bigger it becomes, so you keep putting it off cuz it'll take so damn long. I rushed through Vietnam. I didn't have time really to do updates there, mainly cuz I was having so much fun either sitting on the beach doing nothing or touring around. Vietnam therefore still has to be put on my blog. I was there for 2 weeks, that's a lot of information. I've also been back in Canada for 3 weeks and have done a lot of things....again, a lot of info. That's my excuse for putting this off. You all know how much I love excuses.

Here we go...Vietnam in a nutshell.

Boat with eyes in the Mekong Delta

me with very red hair in a canal off the Mekong Delta

rowin a boat in a cool hat

Mekong tour group

me and my pineapple in the floating market

Floating Market - Mekong Delta - Saigon

The cute little girl on our tourist boat in the floating market. She took my camera and kept taking pictures. She'd obviously done this before cuz she kept taking them, them pressing the review button, looking at them, deciding if she liked them and then getting me to delete them if they weren't good enough. Majorly cute.

Doreen, Sandra, Andreas, Yola and me at dinner in the tourist market - Saigon

Mui Ne

the beach in front of our guest house - looking north

the beach looking south

wind surfers

the fairy stream and the cows that pooed in it

our tour guide up the fairy stream, Linh

boats in the harbour - Mui Ne

Nha Trang and surrounding Islands

me and my elephant friend

the waterfall - on some random island off Nha Trang

me and some monkeys on monkey island - off Nha Trang

Halong Bay and Hanoi

boats in Halong Bay - the day was too foggy for us to go out...sucks to spend a day in Halong City the well-renouned "prostitution capital of Vietnam"