Back home in Australia

Howdy all,

After a few nights relaxing and unwinding in Udon Thani, we started our 21hr journey back to the gold coast, Australia. The flights back were a breeze and after upgrading the long haul to Scoot Biz we had a comfortable sleep on the return overnight journey from Singapore to the Gold Coast.

The last few days in Udon Thani were a bit of a non event, apart from of course catching up with our good friend Mr Moto (Amarin) and having many drinks and good food together. One day we decided to see if we could find a good vantage point of the runway at Udon Thani International Airport, as it turned out our hotel for the last part of the trip was located approx 500mtrs from the Runway itself, whilst this made for some noisy takeoff's and landings during the day, it led us to see how close we could get. We found a couple of decent spots after being turned away by the army and air force barracks we were trying to ride into :P Of course they had guns, but we had smiles and that seemed to make them giggle at us as we tried to no end to gain entry.

We visited the night markets to buy some souvenirs and pressies for the folks back home although for most of our stay their David was had a funny tummy which meant not too much exploring around town in the heat.

We found a lovely restaurant called The Bookhouse Restaurant where we got to know the owner/cook who makes a very large selection of fantastic food. This was our meal at least once a day for the 4 days and everything we tried on the menu was top notch! The last day their we tried some of their Thai food which the owners mother cooks, simply devine!

Friday night we handed the bikes back to our good friend Amarin to look after until our next adventure sometime in 2015. Whilst it was a bit sad to hand them back and see them go, we were nonetheless very excited to get back home to see Mason after 3 and a bit weeks away.

When we got home, Mason was super excited to see his daddy and ran to him with arms wide open for a huge hug, then Uncle Chris got a cuddle too :)

Thanks to Maz for looking after the house, mason and cats. It was very good to be home.

Thanks to Mum and Dad for picking us up from the airport early on a Sunday morning!

Over the coming week(s) I will continue sorting through many of the photos we have yet to post and
get some up on the blog as an overview post. Will also tally up our fundraising efforts thus far and provide copies of the Receipts for the purchases we made. It is very important to us that you all know that every cent raised (and a little bit more) went towards this great cause and has really helped to change the lives of hundreds of Laos people for generations to come.

We will be starting our fundraising earlier next year as we would like to try and visit multiple schools to take book parties to as many kids as we possibly can, such a small financial investment that yields such an amazing result!

Last but especially not least, again i have to say a huge thank you to those who have supported us in our cause as well as our previous trips, your support is what gives us the motivation and will to continue these efforts each year and we hope to be even bigger and better next year with extra time for fundraising and planning. Bless each and every one of the you and know you have been instrumental in changing the lives of many, many people!

We look forward to sharing more images of the trip with you over the coming week(s).

If you have any questions at all about anything we could assist with, whether it be general travel advise for Thailand or Laos, how you can arrange to do something like this on your next holiday abroad (Not necessarily just in Laos) or any other questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on the below details and I will be happy to get back to you.

“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”