How to get to Laos:

Exit house at 7:45 am. Enter generous friend's car and ride to train station. Enter train going to Tampere. Get distracted by free wifi. At Tampere switch trains to Helsinki. Get off at Tikkurila. Walk straight to city bus going to Vantaa Airport. Check-in luggage. Find spot to use free wifi. Board plane to Frankfurt. Listen to excited Finnish group go on a trip. Arrive in Frankfurt. Be disappointed with lack of free wifi. Finally find an outlet to charge laptop for plane ride. Buy Milka chocolate as a gift. Look at expensive 3€ water. Be thirsty. Realize two minutes before boarding that you are sitting right next to a water fountain. Sit next to someone nice to talk to (Thai Lufthansa worker). Practise your Thai. Watch a movie. Try to finish assignment. Sleep in 30 positions. Wake up for breakfast. After landing enter natural sauna. Have polite new Thai friend offer you their phone to let you call for your ride. Get into trouble in immigration for not having a location of stay in Thailand. Finally get through by being clueless and a warning. Find luggage and go outside and sit in sauna. Family friend picks up with home made fresh spring rolls. Takes straight to noodle shop for more food. On the way home pick up sweet coconut rice for mango dessert. Enjoy it despite being full. Required taste test on Thai style lasagna when you can no longer eat anything. Sit and nap in the heat trying to digest four hours of food for the next six hours. Eat more spring roles when friend comes over. Go out to a shopping mall to buy some essentials and have sticky rice mango boat ice-cream at Swensen's. Come back home. Remember chocolate gift. Realize it is not a bar, but melted liquid chocolate. Say good bye to friend. Take shower. Sleep. Wake up five hours later to get into taxi. Sit around at airport talking to nice Thai lady who offers fruit and water. Go though security and forget your bag. Have to go through it all over again to get the bag. Have airport worker quiz you on the contents of your bag. Wait around for plane to board. Make sure to look presentable. Be impressed by a meal offered on a 50 minute international flight. Land in lovely Laos. Get though immigration fast due to getting visa prior to departure. Get bag and wait in humid heat for ride. Have phoe-noodle soup and arrive at new home. And that is how you get to Laos if you are me.