32 hours later…
Just had a shower in the Hotel, as we finally checked in.
We were delayed an hour leaving from Toronto, but the pilot made that up by the time we arrived in Alaska. Unfortunately, someone passed our during the flight, and needed oxygen for the remainder of the flight. So he was offloaded in Alaska, however they forced us to wait 2 hours on the plane while they searched for his luggage.
So, we ended up landing about 10 minutes after our Hong Kong to Saigon flight was scheduled to take off. Not a good start to the trip.
Luckily, there were 24 of us destined for Vietnam, so they held the flight as we dashed from one gate to another. At this point, we figured we had no hope of seeing our luggage arrive with us, so we resigned to going through the baggage claim process one we arrived.
2 hours later were we stuck in an Immigration lineup in Vietnam… for an hour, even though there were only about 12 people in front of us. From watching, it looks like they do complete manual data entry on the spot, based on the forms you fill out on the plane. Not terribly efficient 
The good news, however, was that by the time we go through Immigration, our luggage showed up waiting for us on the carosel. So grabbed that, and headed out into the heat - 28 degrees. Van’s mom was waiting for us with some of her family and a big van to take us to the hotel, so we survived the trip, and have unpacked enough that I could get my laptop online and post.
Photos coming later today… stay tuned.
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