Sapa trek....or was it meant to be????????

We got up and had our breakfast, all was good, we were psyched for our trek..we'd just finished breakfast and went across the road to try and get some US dollars for the Laos border, it was something that had started to prove difficult as no one would exchange the opposite way (including the banks as I later learned). As we left the shop I turned around and saw Tina doing a Jurgen Klinsmann on the steps of the exchange shop. My first reaction was 'Oh shit' , I tried to help her up and some other Asian guy came to help me, my first conclusion was the damage was small (thank God), no gashes on the face , no broken teeth, she had landed like a pro and used her hands to break her fall, so the damage limitation was a fairly grazed knee, a swollen ankle and an emotional Tina!

She sat on the step for a while to get her bearings, when a French Doctor/Tourist who saw there might be something up, had a look at Tina, the two of them conversed in the French tongue (I of course put the whole Henry cheating thing aside considering the circumstances :D * JOKE *) and check her ankle over, and then I took her back to the hotel, where I administered an alcohol wipe to her graze knee, which was met with as much haste as a child been met with a cotton bud full of Dettol!

I went out and sorted our bus to Laos, unfortunately it's not as straight forward and comfortable as one would imagine, we have a 11 hour bus journey tomorrow just to get us that bit closer to the border!

We had to get some more laundry done today and as most know Asia is cheap as chips for it ($1 = 1kg), We'd booked in 6 kilos this morning before the accident, but when I arrived to collect it, the family sat me down and poured me some drink from a water bottle, a drink so strong it would probably start a car!! They offered me some food but I refused as I was heading out with Tina later.

Next stop Dien Bien Phu...fingers crossed it won't be a highway to hell!