In Vietnam

Hi everyone,

We are in Vietnam at the moment. The weather is totally different and it is hard to believe that we were walking around in freezing conditions yesterday. Snow in Shanghai, many wouldn't think it possible. The airport was 'crazy' yesterday. So many flights were canceled/delayed and tempers were definitely rising as the evening wore on. Our flight was due to leave at 9.20pm. Because of the snow we left Suzhou early at 10am as some people had taken between 4-8 hours driving the normal 2-3 hour distance. The roads were not too bad. Probably due to most staying off them out of fear. The highway looked as though it had been salted and so the ice and snow was not too bad. We ended up at PuDong Airport at 12.30 or something, 9 hours before our flight was due to leave. We caught the maglev train into Shanghai and tried to find a visa photo place. We finally found a place but it took forever, the man that took our photo, (I can bring myself to call him the photographer because he could do anything else) he didn't really have a clue at what he was doing. After that we went to try to find a Starbucks as we knew it would be warm. We stayed there until 6.30 and went back to the airport. We checked in and were told there would be about an hour delay (cough... b@lsh*t). But we could have been much worse off. Some of those poor Chinese people would save all year to go home to their families for New Years and some only get this week off all year and then they get delayed and canceled. The standby line had a 2 day (yes, I did say 2 day!!!!) delay (we were told).

So we got to Ho Chi Minh this morning at 5.30 am. We have booked to go to Siem Riep (Cambodia) on the 9th of Feb and we are going to the Mekong Delta for 2 days tomorrow.

Hope everyone is well.
Kelly and Kane