Ryan McFarland

We planned on meeting Levy, Stacey, and Karine at the Eva counter in Seattle at 11PM on Sunday.  We arrived an hour early and there was a substantial line so we figured we’d hop in and try and get 5 seats together.  Our agent couldn’t find anyone’s reservations but ours though.  When Stacey and Levy arrived we went through the line again with them and we wended up next to that agent.  I think she was embarrassed that she couldn’t find them in the system so she had Cena and I upgraded for “coming early” and “being nice” (we didn’t get worked up when she said they were not on the flight).  Then Levy and Stacey were upgraded and just as they were finishing up checking in, Karine arrived and skipped to the head of the line.  We were not in first class - nor even business class but it wasn’t economy.

We had a few hour stop in Taipei, Taiwan where we did a little duty free shopping and enjoyed the free massage chairs.

We flew in economy from Taipei to Ho Chi Minh City but the plane was newer so the seats were decent at the in-flight entertainment system was state of the art.  Our food on both flights was excellent.  We arrived and went through immigration and customs without a hitch.  Seth met us at the airport with “Coconut” - her real name is pronounced “Kahn” like the nemesis from the Star Trek movie.

I’m running out of time before we have to meet everyone in the lobby for our bus ride to the Mekong Delta where we’ll take a two day boat ride into Cambodia.  No idea if we’ll end up with internet access for a while but we plan on checking back into this hotel on the 26th which should be the 25th to everyone in the US.  Here are some more pictures… the most memorable thing so far?  The liquor at Coconut’s aunt’s that was a mixture of five different alcohols that were home-made.  Ginseng, a medicinal blend, banana, seahorse, and snake.  Yes.  Snake.  We found out after having the blend and it was sweet and very good.