Got up at 9 today and went for breakfast downstairs! There was a power cut all morning but downstairs still works! Couldn't pack because it was pitch black, our window faces a building a few centimetres away! So went back to sleep and set my alarm for 11:15 to shower and leave by 12! The power was still out and we have an electric shower! :( 10 minutes later it came back on, so shot up so fast and showered, shaved, packed and was downstairs ready within 30 min...

So, even though we've been complaining all this time about not having anything to do, we've now booked our ticket to Vietnam! We made an itinery of things to do for the full 30 days and were gonna be busy busy! So we made the most of doing nothing! Packed cases, sorted laundry all that crazy stuff us 20 year olds get upto ;) We went for lunch in a western restaraunt a few blocks away from our hotel, I had a burger and I don't know why, Everytime I think I crav...

Got up to go for breakfast before another delightful trip to the embassy! God how we just love going there! It's our second home! We now had printed photos! We got a tuk tuk to what we assumed would be a photo booth, when it was actually just a woman with a digital camera who took a photo of us in a room in her shop! As she uploaded the photos to the computer me and Annie got our Tyra Banks on! Her Tank top showed her shoulders do she had to wear an old fusty g...

Today we got a tuk tuk to the embassy! Neither of us are willing to do another trek! We got there after breakfast at 10:30 with our cash drawn out of the bank and our passports with us, this should be all you need! We got the papers to fill in which takes forever, they want to know everything about you, your relationships with anybody in China, your job, why you want to travel to China, in detail! I'm surprised they didn't care to ask me what I'd had for breakf...

Today we were up for breakfast at 9:00 as usual, and then walked all the way to the Chinese visa embassy! The guy from the reception said it would take 30 minutes, it took us an hour and a half! Arrived knackered and sweating and them the god-damn place was closed! I mean really? God doesn't want me to get to China!!! It was 'annual closing' surely someone would have known and could've told us this before the treck in the sweating hot sun! Annie was dripping ...