So here's my whole experiance during the long 3 weeks that I was in Laos and Thailand. Please excuse the spelling or puncuations and grammar (as you know im not as a good writer as LHM)
April 20th, 2013
The night before leaving on my trip I was not able to sleep at all. I keep thinking of what I would be doing, who I would be meeting and what it would be like and rushing and trying to scatter everything I needed for the trip. On this trip, I packed at least 10 brand new outfits along with 2 sandals, 1 canon camera, 1 sony camcorder, 1 Hero black edition, my makeup bag with all my jewleries and toothbrush and personal use stuff, 1 coach purse for my sister's bday, 1 stuff animal for my niece. On the other hand my mom already have like 4 XL suitcase packed with clothes, and gifts for relatives. As the time was getting closer to leave to the airport around 5pm, I was already jumping with joy. Check in to MSP and arrived in Seattle around 8pm. Took the shuttle to our hotel since we don't officially leave the States till the next day in the evening.
April 21, 2013 - April 22nd, 2013
Woke Up around 5am to get ready and relax for the long journey. Took the shuttle to the airport around 9am, checked in, rec'd boarding pass and was boarding the plane around 2pm to Narita Japan. This is the longest and most exhausting flight I have ever been on. The flight was around 13 hours and I was jet leg by the time we arrived in Japan. I enjoyed the entertainment on the plane but wish there was wifi. I watched mostly all the new movies that came out. Also the snacks and food was not what I thought it would be. Mostly ate the desserts and fruits. The meals was not good at all but I did enjoy the ice cream provided.
April 23rd, 2013
Finally arrived in Japan around 4pm. I'm glad my mom needed wheelchair assistance so my parents and I moved thru the security lines very quick and didn't have to wait at all when we got to Narita, Japan. We had a 2 hour layover and finally last plane trip to Bangkok. It was about a 6 hour flight and finally arrived at 11pm. Waited for my sister and her daughter to arrive and meet us there.
April 24th, 2013
Finally my sister arrived at 2am at bangkok airport and we decided to wait till 6am to take the MRT Sub to Hualomphong train station to go to Laos. our train didn't leave until 8pm that night so we walk around the area and inside the train station had stalls and stores to shop around while we wait. I suggest if you are carrying light and not travelling with alot of people, the train station is a cheaper way to get into Laos. I personally like it. We got 2nd class seats where there was AC and pull out beds to sleep for around $30 per person. I wanted the first class seats where you have your private room but it was all booked and was a little bit more. The schedule said we should be in Nong khai around 8am but just to let you know they make quite some mini stops and usually takes a bit longer to get there. We finally arrived in Nong Khai at 10am where we waived a tuk tuk for 20 baht per person to a local travel agency where we paid around 500 baht to get us over to the friendship bridge. Another way u can do for cheaper is take the connecting train to thanaleng which crosses over the friendship bridge to Laos and quicker and cheaper, but because we had lots of luggage we had to take that route....
TO BE CONTINUED.