Sunday May Something at 10pm...
Today has been a weird day. Ah my laptop power is getting low so i tried to plug it in and it made a frying sound..not good.
Anyway, today we were in Saigon and we got up at had breakfast which was on the 7th floor for some reason. Then we went on the bus to a boat on the river and we rode it to a fruit market place where you sit down and have tea and fruit and people sing and play vietnamese music.
We tried a popular fruit here called...durine or something. It smells really badly and they say it tastes really good, lots of people love it. It looked like scrambled eggs and tasted like onions. It wasnt good at all.
No one liked it.
Then we went on a little boat with 4 people and a guy rowing, and we all had the vietnamese hats on in the boat and our guide told us to sing row row row your boat. It was fun.... it was down a little river with big palm trees and things like that along the sides and other boats passing us with everyone wearing the triangle hats.
Then we went to a factory where they make coconut candy and we tried some, it was good so we all bought some... then some people held a big snake, cobra or something.
Then we had some honey tea.
Then we went walking through the jungle, the actual jungle...weird... to the place where we had lunch. They brought us out a weird looking fish thing turned on its side and it actually was a fish but it looked like one a lot... and they made us spring roll ish things... they said if we wanted we could order a cobra. they would chop off its head and you can drink the raw blood and eat the beating heart then eat the cobra...
so most of the guys in the group decided to do that...
so they went and watched the guy cut off the cobras head. Then he came out with shot glass things of the blood mixed with rice wine... so they all had a shot of that. One girl did it, Gil... but then she threw up. Then they brought out the heart and meanwhile the waiter guy was saying sorry because he didnt know what was going on... one guy, Owen, ate the heart in a shot...
Then they brought out the cobra in a salad. meanwhile most other people weren't really hungry anymore... so most of us hardly ate anything that lunch.
Then it started thundering and it got really dark and it started raining really hard and we had to go back on the boats to the main land and we got al wet... then we went back to the bus and drove to the ferry where we had to get off the bus and walk with a bunch of motor bikes for some reason and on the ferry. And Gil was still sick... and we stoof the ferry then we came to Can Tho.... to our weird hotel... which everyone is afraid of.
There are lizards in the rooms and it's just weird.
We took pictures of it and of the ghosts.
People are saying it reminds them of Hostel or something.
We went for a walk to dinner and we heard a bunch of sirens and a parade was going down the street.
Then we got a little lost but made it back to the hotel. We have a sign on our door that says Courteny and Kaitlynn's Honeymoon Sweet.
And we took ghostly pictures here.
Tomorrow is our last day. Time has gone by fast.
Sunday, May 18, 2008
same same ... but different.
here is a post i wrote a few days ago first of all... in word :
Thursday, May 15 2008.
Today is someone’s birthday and it’s either Lissy’s or Emily’s but I am leaning towards Lissy.
We left Hanoi this morning and caught an hour long flight to Hue.
Once we got here, we met our new guides, Pho and Chinh. Then we went on a walking tour of some places…The Citadel or something like that.
Before that we ate lunch at a nice restaurant but they were really slow to bring out our food. They made everything look really nice. There was a pine apple with sticks in it and spring rolls in it and carrots so that it looked like a peacock.
I should make something like that for a party sometime… except maybe with marshmallows or something.
After the walking tour we came to our resort, which is reallyyyyy nice. It is the nicest hotel I have ever stayed in or probably ever will.
There are a lot of trees and ponds and everything, and different buildings and candles. The rooms are in a townhouse kind of style. We are upstairs and we have a front balcony and a back balcony that looks out to the swimming pool, a pond and the restaurant. It is really big.
I am hungry. It is 7:35pm and dinner is at 8.
No one wanted to wear their fancy dresses tonight so we are doing that a different day.
Our room is really big and nice. We have 3 beds in here…. Its nicer than my house. Like 10000 times nicer.
Karen and Gillaine are in our room right now because we are ready to go to dinner. I am drinking Huda beer from the mini fridge because it is only a dollar.
The internet café here is called the Candle Bar and it is an actual bar with candles and couches… its all just too beautiful for our minds.
I feel so rich.
And they even have a blowdryer.
You can buy anything in your room and I wanted to get the blowdryer to use for the rest of the trip but it is the plugs they use here so I wouldn’t be able to use it at home.
It is now 10pm. We just got back from dinner. It was pretty goood but we have the same basic things every meal. The fruit at the end is usually the highlight. Tonight it was fried pineapple and it tasted really good.
Now I am going to bed.
Thursday, May 15 2008.
Today is someone’s birthday and it’s either Lissy’s or Emily’s but I am leaning towards Lissy.
We left Hanoi this morning and caught an hour long flight to Hue.
Once we got here, we met our new guides, Pho and Chinh. Then we went on a walking tour of some places…The Citadel or something like that.
Before that we ate lunch at a nice restaurant but they were really slow to bring out our food. They made everything look really nice. There was a pine apple with sticks in it and spring rolls in it and carrots so that it looked like a peacock.
I should make something like that for a party sometime… except maybe with marshmallows or something.
After the walking tour we came to our resort, which is reallyyyyy nice. It is the nicest hotel I have ever stayed in or probably ever will.
There are a lot of trees and ponds and everything, and different buildings and candles. The rooms are in a townhouse kind of style. We are upstairs and we have a front balcony and a back balcony that looks out to the swimming pool, a pond and the restaurant. It is really big.
I am hungry. It is 7:35pm and dinner is at 8.
No one wanted to wear their fancy dresses tonight so we are doing that a different day.
Our room is really big and nice. We have 3 beds in here…. Its nicer than my house. Like 10000 times nicer.
Karen and Gillaine are in our room right now because we are ready to go to dinner. I am drinking Huda beer from the mini fridge because it is only a dollar.
The internet café here is called the Candle Bar and it is an actual bar with candles and couches… its all just too beautiful for our minds.
I feel so rich.
And they even have a blowdryer.
You can buy anything in your room and I wanted to get the blowdryer to use for the rest of the trip but it is the plugs they use here so I wouldn’t be able to use it at home.
It is now 10pm. We just got back from dinner. It was pretty goood but we have the same basic things every meal. The fruit at the end is usually the highlight. Tonight it was fried pineapple and it tasted really good.
Now I am going to bed.
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