At last update we had arrived in Vang Vieng, did one day of tubing, and had a bus ticket booked south. Unfortunately, due to the sheer awesomeness of the tubing lifestyle, instead we were "forced" to cancel and postpone our bus ticket and hit the river for a couple more days. We were able to meet up with Chantel and Patrick, whom we'd seen down in Vientiane a week or so earlier. The few days on the river were a blast of course, we partook in the regular activities of floating aimlessly, flying off the trapeze rope swing, playing volleyball and enjoying Beer Laos, or "river juice" as we like to refer to it. Somehow we managed to wake up and not go tubing, and actually get on a bus and leave one of the most
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