Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summer

When we met our friends Serina and Dan from England in Xi'an they were 3/4 of the way done their South East Asia/China trip.
They took pretty much the same route we are, except for they did it backwards, ending in China for their final month.
After we went to the Terracotta Warriors with them they spent the evening in the hostel and even ate dinner there. We didn't see them for the rest of the night because they were cooped up in their room!
I was horrified!
We had a whole DAY while they were inside. I remember it clearly! Biking atop the city wall, eating at a nice restaurant, walking aimlessly through the strange city streets.
I even said to Stuart, 'Can you imagine? Dan and Serina are staying in??'

And now, 3/4 of the way through our trip, I feel as though we are developing Dan and Serina syndrome. (However, most days we force ourselves to explore)
We are tired!
We are in desperate longing for western cuisine!
Our normal beds!
A beloved kitchen to cook in!

having said that...
We will hopefully snap out of it. We did spend the whole of today (pretty much, anyway...) exploring Vientiane.
We had AMAZING pizza at a little place that reminded Stuart of pizza he had in Italy (it was that good!)
We visited our friend that runs the internet cafe, tried hot and cold Laotian coffee.
We sipped from a coconut.
I made friends with our hotel service staff.

But I'm always tired.
No matter how much sleep I get!
and so is Stu.

I think tomorrow we're going to Vang Vieng.
It's supposed to rock.

Hopefully we'll be awake for it.