Oh my goodness. We have had the most awsome day ever!
Yesterday we arrived quite last so we had a walk around town and went for dinner and drinks. The restaurant was great as it had pool tables, movies, beer pong, GIANT JENGA, and dice to determine whether your bucket was free or not :-) . It was a great night but I won't say anymore as today completely trumped it.
In the morning we hired motorbikes and drove to a couple of caves. There was no one else around for most of the trip so it was a lovely and peaceful and a few of us found a little alcove to go swimming in. It was freeeeeezing, but very refreshing also. We also went to the blue lagoon and had another very cold swim. For lunch we went to Gary's Irish Bar for some good old english food. Gary recommended his home made pies with REAL mash potatoes and I am grateful he did because it was amazing - or as a girl on this trip says, "it was like an angel peeing on my tongue". Gary also gave us some friendly advice about tubing since we were going after lunch, and as tubing virgins he gave us free wiskey shots and free buckets of vodka red bull :-) We all love Gary :-)
As I just mentioned we went tubing in the afternoon, and it was fantastic!
For those that don't know what it is... You sit in a big rubber ring floating down the river with bars lining the banks, and each bar will throw you a rope so you can get out. The whole route is 3km and has 15 bars, with the odd swing or slide thrown in for good measure. There's also often free shots going around, spray paint with "I love Laos" stenciles, and very loud music. Needless to say there are a lot of very drunk, very happy people around. There are also some very stupid people that get so wasted they fall down the steps into the river taking one of our group with them and blacking out. No one was seriously hurt; though we were all seriously worried for this girls safety. Especially when we all assumed after her fall they would keep her out of the water and 5 minutes later we met her again on her tube continuing down the river :-\ Luckily everyone in our group was sensible enough to enjoy the afternoon without the help of copious amounts of booze.
Then at the final bar the experience got even more exciting when it started to rain... or rather, the heavens opened on us so that our drinks were filling up faster than we were drinking them. Since the bar had zero cover the best option was to jump back on our tubes and head home. It turns out home was still more than 2km down the river. So there's Linda and I, obviously way behind the others because we wanted to dance until the very last possible second, trying to hold onto each other so we didn't get lost, trying to watch out for rocks - because in a part of the world where flooding has been a problem recently the water level in this river was very low - and then trying to swim to finish the route faster. If I could, I would do the whole thing again. Even with it being biterly cold at the end, the rain stinging my eyes, and rocks hitting my back on several occasions, it is still one of the best things I have ever done, and I would seriously recommend it to anyone and everyone!
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