Stairway to Heaven
I know we haven’t been around the last few days but there have been a number of good reasons, and now that we have Internet again we can get a few updates in too. I know exciting isn’t it.
We went to the Perfume Pagoda a pleasant little jaunt outside of Hanoi; by car for an hour and a half then another hour by row boat then start climbing. It such a pretty place it is worth the trip, and as you can tell it is a trip getting there and we haven’t even gotten to the Pagoda. We took the cable car up to the Pagoda, a seven minute ride, and once we walked near to the Pagoda we were rewarded with two of the longest staircases in the entire world! You can trust me on that one for sure.
After going down, and no I am not going to describe what we saw, you will have to see it for yourself, but…By the time we came out and I reached the last staircase, you see it in the picture, like a flash the words to Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” started running through my head. Low and behold I had an epiphany, I completely understood the song as I looked up the staircase you see in the picture!
Now just imagine, you are huffing and puffing after climbing up and down about 3 Gazillion stairs. On top of that you are dripping with sweat like you just stepped out of a swimming pool and you look up and see the last staircase with the warm glow of soft sunlight at the top… ok you got the picture now. Wouldn’t you have an epiphany too? Like yeah!
As I panted trying to regain my breath and when I looked at the top of the Staircase it had this almost heavenly glow like you were about to have a spiritual connection. Well ok, it could have been that I was about ready to pass out from the heat and all the climbing. But I prefer not to think about that aspect. To me it was all about the song and the spiritual connection. You believing my story so far?..