next stop... PANAMA!! November 2009.

Panama City

Boca del toro... Isla Carenero

Three Couples Three weeks Trifecta!!!Panama

Well kids,

We are sitting by the pool at the Somadevi hotel in Siem Reap http://www.somadeviangkor.com and they just activated the Wifi. It may have something to do with the fact that they are having the Amansara 5th aniversary celebration at our hotel. 

We purchase the three day pass to se the Ankor Temples and the first two days were amazing.  

Apologies for not posting photo's the upload speed is next to nonexistent and we are using the full 7.1 megapixels for each photo. we will upload the rest when we get to Korea or on arrival home. we are both happy healthy and prospering in our adventures. so much to see and learn. Tonight we are going to a VIP event at the Ankor Wat. You can check it out here http://www.angkorwatshow.com  We saw the stage our first trip to the wat for the sunrise and after some investigation and a call to David Hasslehoff and he hooked us up with some tickets. We have paid top dollar for most purchases with is still dirt cheap and we are excited to bring back stories and photos to share with ya'll.

chillin' till the next episode...

Friends,

After we learned Leo was ok, we went out for a night on the town in Saigon (for the most part Saigon is what everyone calls it, not Ho Chi Minh City).  Let's just say, it's not our favorite place.  This morning we took off for the beach.  We rented a motorbike, packed a few things into one bag and headed northeast.  After almost being killed by a bus (seriously dave has a scrape on his elbow where we sideswiped a bus; he asked me to note that the bus ran into us not the other way around.  ps, mom, we were wearing helmets.) we finally made it the 127km to Long Hai and found this awesome 4star resort right on the ocean.  So, in order to rent the motorbike and leave the rest of our bags at the hotel we had to also leave our pasports there, when we arrived in Long Hai we checked out the local resorts and picked the Long Hai Beach Club (www.longhaibeachresort.com); all was cool until they told us that they needed our original pasports, which are in Saigon, in order to get a room.  We sat in the lobby and pouted for about 30 minutes until "management" walked in (with an entourage of potential las vegas investors) and we told them we were from California.  They decided to accept our photocopy of the passports after learning we were from California.  There are about 10 other guests in this resort that could probably hold 200 (80 suites and 12 villas that cost $2000 USD a night).  This is by far the best place we've ever stayed in our lives, and we are paying about the same rate as we've paid for crapholes in San Francisco.  We're going to stay here 3 nights, and then try to make the crossing into Cambodia.  More to come.  We'll take some pictures tomorrow.  PS: we've decided that we might have a destination wedding here, so friends and family start saving for the plane flight.

Love,

Laura and Dave