Alas, I have been awful lately. After a horrible business trip in Houston followed by a rotten cold, I barely had anytime to deal with life before I left for my vacation.
Soooo, I am finally writing from my hotel room in Hanoi.
Seriously, its kind of surreal. Something I've been planning since June actually is happening. We bought the ticket and arranged some hotel rooms, but other then that, we decided to come over here and wing it.
I'm half asleep after a day of street food and cheap vietnamese beer, but I thought I would put a little list together of quick things I discovered:
1) Scooters. Scooters. Scooters. They can fit whole families on them. Mom, dad, and two kids plus 3 boxes, 5 baskets, and a chicken.
2) Frogger is not just a video game. Its a way of life.
3) Being a minority.
4) A lot of white people don't want to see a dead Ho Chi Min (I personally found it to be very cool experience)
5) 4 stools on the side of an intersection and a charcoal grill = amazing food
6) I have chia hair, it grows in water
7) Vietnamese winter = Houston summer
8) I never want to experience a Vietnamese summer
9) There are no trash cans for street food. You can just drop the stick.
10) People are nice. No matter where you go.
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You go - you brave street-food eating girl. Make sure your food is HOT or you'll end up with diarrhea and come home as skinny as a the sticks from which you eat your food from. Have a great time!
No worries. We had a sweet woman help us get the Bun Cha. Sooooo good. But I have my immodium with me just in case!
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