Our time in vang vieng was ment to be spent doing one thing and one thing only, enjoy jacks 19th birthday, all i can say is that i made it a very memorable one if nothing else!

Our fist night was the night before Jack's b'day on the 20th so we thought it would be a good idea to see him turn 19 having a few drinks and i laugh. The few drinks turned into quite a few as they always down and we were quite drunk by the time we finnished our dinner.I dont remember anything after that point untill i woke up in jail the next day, with my feet clamped between two wooden planks, with bruses and cuts everywhere having been beaten up, but i had no idea why. Apparently i had walked onto a building sight and woken up a couple of sleeping builders and their wives, they, thinking i was a burgler had beaten me up and had called the police, and so i was put i jail. i had to pay a 1,000,000 kip fine. We then went to the hospital to get some x-rays because my toe was really swollen, but it tuned out to be fine. Therefore we decided to go tubing, matt didnt coz he was worried about his knee, poor baby. So he got drunk by himself in a bar watching tv. Tubing was awsome, jack and i got pretty wasted with all of the free wiskey, and numerous beers. We were doing rope swings into the river from around 15m in the air, and it was on one of these baboo constructions at the last bar i decided to put my foot through the platform and cut my big toe joint so badly that i needed 6 stitches. This meat anothertrip to the hospital and another large bill, but i was all ok with it at the time because there was no pain, due to a mixture of anathetic and alchohol. When i got home i passed out on the bed while matt and jack went out, again to celebrate jacks birthday properly. The next day was spent recovering in the hostel watching tv and eating. The next day was spent travelling to vientien, the capital of laos.