Been there Don Det!

So first of all I apologize for lack of posts recently...but WE ARE IN LAOS!!! Time moves so much slower here and hence, we do too! After the sketchiest border crossing we have ever gone through we made it into south Laos and headed to the 4000 islands! Home to the rarest dolphins in the world and probably one of the most amazing places on earth! The air doesn't move here, so when it's hot, it is REALLY HOT! Sometimes you feel as though if you stop moving you will just evaporate! Luckily it is an island, so we have some escape from the heat! There is no air conditioning here, and electricity is sparce and infrequent. The island even managed to run out of ICE and money!?! (It's THAT small!)
We were supposed to be on Don Det for 3 days...but as with most of our plans, that changed! After a week we realized if we didn't start moving north we would probably never leave Don Det!
We booked our ticket to Vang Vieng and headed North on our longest journey yet. What was supposed to be a 17 hour bus ride was over 24 hours! That's to be expected here though...this is LAOS time we run on! Now we are in Vang Vieng, where we have already overstayed our intended time! Laos has a tendency to suck people in! I didn't believe it before I came here, but I get it now. HOPEFULLY we make it to the bus tomorrow to head back into Thailand, but who knows...we were supposed to leave yesterday and that never happened! haha