Touchdown T-minus 26 hour later

Well I'm finally here and wow, what a journey! We started from Chicago and then took a Korean Air all the way to Souel which was a exhausting 13 hour & 1/2hr flight. It was a pretty decent flight though, they gave us a kewl little pouch with a pair of socks, toothbrush, eye mask, and all that good stuff for the plane ride. They keep feeding us with little things and 2 main meals, and had 2 movies on the flight as well, but one movie was the crappy sequel to Zorro and this korean movie, that I only watched half us, because the person in front of me had a big ass head.

We finally got off the flight and they we were layed over in Korea for 3 hours. The Korean airport was pretty kewl though. Every thing was high in technology... even the bathrooms. A carton of cigs was only 15 bucks!!!! I don't even smoke... but I had to buy a carton just cause, and I could hook anyone up with a smoke if they asked me for money. They had this wacky game show on TV, at the airport, where there were a bunch of guys and they were trying to guess how many fingers a person was holding, but the person would wave his hand around super fast so it was real difficult to see how many fingers he was holding. If the person guessed wrong, the guy holding up the fingers, would flick the guy who got it wrong right in the head! It was funny as hell and I didn't have to understand the language. They reality shows are way better than ours in america. I could watch that for ever an ever.

After that me and my bro went out to get our last burger, before the good ol nam, so we hit up the good old burger king for my last double bacon cheeseburger. It costed 15000 W in korean money. I really don't know how much that is in american, but it wasn't that much. I'll know exactly how much it was when I go back... I'll take a look at the currency rate.

I munched down my burger, and watched the rest of that crazy game show. After that I busted out my poker chips and a deck of cards ( yes i brought chips and cards... I'm a poker player for life!) to teach my mom how to play poker. It took about 1hr to teach her all the basics, an she understands it alot more, but still don't know the names of the hands. But She actually played pretty good for the first time, so next time I watch poker on TV, she will understand it alot better and get into it alot more. I actually played heads up on the plane with my brother too. We played 2 outta 3 and I took it down. ( who else you think won?)

It was finally time to leave the korean airport and go to Vietnam finally! So it was another 5 hours until touchdown at Ho Chi Minh city. We had yet ANOTHER meal, and after that I just tried to sleep and listen to that new Harland Williams comedy CD. Of coarse he did a wookie joke and did the chewbacka yell. DDDDDDDDDRRRRRRRRRRRR!

When we got to the Vietnam airport, it was if we went back in time 20 years. The airport was all basic with old desks and everything out of date technologywise. The bathrooms were small and simple and I could barely get my wheelchair in there to pee. One thing is for sure.... Vietnam wasn't built for peeps in wheelchairs!!!!!

One the ride to the hotel, it was crazy! They hardly have any traffic lights and mopeds and motorcycles everywhere! You think chicago is bad, come to Vietnam.... Traffic is insane! You definately have to keep your eyes peeled, because they will be a moped to the left,right,back,front of you!

Well I'm going to get back to talking and socializing with the whole family. I'll hop back on and update whenever I get some more free time. My hotel has a internet cafe, so I'll be updating it more than I though.

Until then... Keep it real in the USA!

Goin to the NAM

Nam?

Vietnam foo! Yup, as I speak my whole family is racing to have everything ready for the long trip. It's about a 14 hours flight there, plus a 4 hour layover in korea. We will be goin to Chicago to Korea, and then from Korea to Vietnam. My old man said that there will be wifi on the actual plane, and I hope so, so I can have a little more time to update and tell you more things about the trip. In Vietnam they have only dial up, but at least they have a internet connection. I brought alot of things to keep me entertained on the trip, and my doctor prescribed some sleepin pills too, in case I want to sleep on the trip; since it is 14 hours! I'm going to try and see if there's any poker rooms there in the good ol Ho Chi Minh and I'll comeback and touchdown as soon as I can plug in. Until then, Raise that pot!