So, where was I, oh yeah, the flights.  Asiana Air is a great airline.  The Plane looked new, they gave us menus for the two meals and the food was great.  About 45 minutes after we left Seattle we were served the first one.  I had the steak and for the first time ever on an airplane, I cleaned my plate,  Beverly would be so pleased.  Then about six hours later, we had ham and cheese sandwiches.  About three hours later we had another full meal.  We had aisle seats in the center of the plane with two open seats between us which was really nice.

The flight from Seoul to Hanoi was on a smaller plane and every seat was taken.  We had aisle seats again, one behind the other, but someone was sitting in mine so the flight attendant tried to straighten that out.  A lot of native language discussions with them getting out all their boarding passes.  There were 8 traveling together and, as the flight attendant put it "they are sitting here because of the children."  Shades of India where we got on the train with assigned seats and there was a family of six sitting in three seats, two of which were ours and they weren't moving.  I ended up two rows back but I said it had to be an aisle seat so the two fathers in the group took the window and center seat.  To make matters worse, when Stella tried to put her seat back a little, the woman who was sitting in my seat poked her between the seats and essentially said "don't do that."  Stella tried it again a couple of hours later and got the same response.  We think the woman couldn't figure out how to tilt the screen on the back of Stella's seat so she could see it when the seat was back.

When we walked out the door, there was a gaggle of drivers holding up signs, a lot of which were not in English but we spotted one with Stella's name on it so we were off to the hotel.  I was sitting in front this time.  The driver told us he was 33 and he works 7 days a week usually for 17 hours a day being a driver.  He's from the mountains, married with a 4 month old son.  We oohed over the baby picture that he showed us on his phone.  Not much traffic at midnight but lots of motorbikes loaded with flowers going to the flower market.  He also told us that he learned English on the job because he quit school at 14 to work in a restaurant.  And he loves to sing karaoke so he sings in his car all the way back to the airport after he drops off the passengers.  The new airport has only been open 18 days.