The Day Charles Left

We woke up early to finish packing Charles' luggage and to say our good byes. We left the house with what we thought was enough time to make the flight, however we found out to check baggage you had to be there 40 minutes prior. We made it through the heavy traffice with only 30 minutes to spare. Charles couldn't board the flight with all of his luggage.

So the next thing to do was figure something out! We had to move quickly to get it all settled. We had to go from the airport all the way downtown to the Vietnam Airlines office, which took an hour in travel time, just to get started. We found out that Charles' ticket had no value and that the only option was to pay for another ticket to get to singapore at 5. If he didn't get to Singapore before his 6Am Tokyo flight he would be stuck until July 28th! Not a good thing! We tried everything to not have to pay for the ticket. We even went to the US Embassy, but they where closed for lunch, "Come back later." said the guard. We where like "REJECTED by our own embassy in an emergency!" We had no time so Charles purchased the ticket and got back on track to the USA.

Trying to deal with all this was mentally exhausting since we had been up the entire night. We weren't going to let this happen to me! We planned to pack everything the night before and leave at 7:30 AM. I would rather sit in the airport for several hours than have to pay for another ticket.

The rest of the day was spent sleeping! We where so exhausted! While Hong slept I did some major updates on the blog and posted pictures online.

Around 10 we went to get some dinner at a Chinnese Restaurant! The sweet and sour sauce here is SOOOO much better than in the US! We then watched some DVDs and then crashed for the night!