What an Adventure!!!

Seriously - we have been on an adventure!! We left Hoi An (central Vietnam) by car - 3 hours up and over the mountain to get to Hue. En route we nearly crashed head on with a large van who decided that our lane should belong to him. It rattled our driver so much that he needed to stop and get some water. Anyway - we get to the Hue airport and it is eerily empty. No one and I mean no one is in the airport. I find someone from Vietnam air and he says that they have cancelled our plane and that we will not get to Hanoi till very late at night and that they will put us up in a hotel in Hue. I remarked that this was not going to work since we neede to cach the train to Sa Pa that evening and there was not a train leaving on Saturday. He remarks that the only option we have is to take a cab to Da Nang and get a plane from there and the cost would be about $600,000 dong. We pay the man and we proceed three more hours in the car back over the mountain and around the ocean in a very stinky car with very limited ac to Da Nang. We check in to find that had we arrived 10 minutes earlier we could have caught an earlier flight to Hanoi - but alas - we are to sit 5 hours in the airport and wait. The airport is interesting - they close EVERYTHING down between flights. No services at all. So we get on the plane to Hanoi for the hour flight and land in pouring rain - grab a cab and find that our driver has no idea where the train station is. He deposits us outside some tour company next door to the train station where we wade through flooded streets to get into the train station.
After what seems to be an eternity - but really was only like 3 hours - we board our train. We weer not able to secure a private sleeper so we shared with two Australian men - both who live in Hanoi and work there. One as a doctor and th other as a kindergarten teacher. I fall asleep right away and do not move till they wake us in Loi Cho - which is on the Vietnamese/Chinese border.
I will continue with the rest of the story tomorrow since I appear to be having internet difficulties.