Vientiane II

so here we go, god or buddha gave me some time, so I decided to summarize some of my thoughts... so whoever is not interested in these, is allowed to stop reading now ;)
when I woke up this morning, I was covered in sweat as usual (well I don't like it, if the air condition is on all night, it's loud and I usually wake up in the middle of the night, freezing), and because the window of my room is broken, the shutters are down and I couldn't see outside... my original plan was to head towards Vang Vieng for a one day trip (more to that later) so I packed my backpack with my swimsuite and towel... well as I went outside it was raining and around 20degrees... yes I was pretty suprised, but you probably won't understand what a relieve that was... amazing... yesterday it was about 30 something degrees and really humide... and it's cold season now, I don't understand how they do it in the hot one...
about this one day trip... Vang Vieng is the city in Lao to go tubing down the river (you take a car tire and just float with the stream), it is about 120 km north of Vientiane so I thought, naive as I am, I could just take a bus there in the morning, go tubing and take a bus home in the evening again... so yesterday I wondered around the capital and asked in about 10 (!) different tour agencies if this is possible... I got 10 different answers and most if them included there are no buses to Vientiane in the evening (??) .. well I can tell you that was quite fruststrating, so in the end I decided I would just go there in the morning and hope, that there are buses back... well, skipped that plan, apparently.
The other thing I tried to find was a copy of "The quiet American" by Graham Greene... well that's impossible either at least in english... although I found one in finnish :))) o yes, for everybody who is interested, the book is about the Vietnam war and should be very good.
So today I think I will visit the Lao National Museum because shamefully I have to admit I don't know sooo much about lao history, although it was a part of the Ho Chi Minh Path as well as french colonialisation... well if anybody is interested, I can write more about it after I've learnt something in the museum (hopefully) right now, they have lunch break (like everybody here from 12 to 1 pm)...
Generally I'm reading 2 books about Southeastasia, and I don't know how much you have learnt about the history of these countries, but I think yes we mentioned the Vietnam war, but that's more or less it... because talking about WW II for half a year is much more important (please don't misunderstand, WW II is very very important but there has to be time for other thing's as well)... so a lot to learn here...
well I think I've babbled enough for now, my flight to Hanoi is leaving tomorrow afternoon... quite exciting :) hugs and kisses