"Smile!"
I was ready to leave Vientiane as I just wasn’t feeling it and excited about getting to Cambodia. Visiting Angkor Wat and the other temples was something I had been waiting for since we planned the trip. We had arranged a pickup from the airport via our hotel, and the driver who picked us up spoke decent english. He chatted us up quite a bit, and tried to get us to hire him to drive us around in his private car. Once we negotiated a decent price and our itinerary of where we wanted to go, we agreed to hire him.