OK, so this was a beach town. The rainclouds just kept following us!!!!!!!!! We made a plan to get as much done in 1 day then keep high tailing it South. The girls were a day ahead of us so they had found a decent place to stay and sent us the info, we went right there after the night bus dropped us off....another great little hostel for 7 bucks a night, free breakfast, and a free drink at happy hour! Just love when they hook it up like that!
We went for a walk along the water....boy oh boy....the waves were crashing, the wind was blowing.....I am sure it has a great feel when all the beach side cafes and bars are open and running....but everything was stored up and away to keep things from being blown all over. There was am older man and his friend walked a little behind us and we asked him to take our picture, turns out he lives in Lincoln Park...my old hood in Chicago!
Since we could not tan our beautiful...starting to look a bit casperish bodies..we found the next best thing to laying out in the sun. MUD BATHES!! We rounded up some more kids staying at the hostel, rented a van, and all bought entrance fees to the mineral park. We spent the afternoon splashing around in hot mud, taking hot mineral showers and hot mineral baths....our skin and hair were smooth and sparkling and we had some GREAT people watching.
It was the last night all of the girls were going to be together before our Bali trip so we thought of just hanging low and having wine night. Of course we bought the cheapest bottle. You get what you pay for, because we had a bottle of wine that tasted like it was rotten egg was infused. Wine night was canceled and we settled for happy hour...that turned out to be a later night then originally planned. This was a bad idea because Danni and I were getting on the 7 30 AM bus down to Saigon/Ho Chi Min City the next morning.
This may have been one of the roughest starts to a bus ride yet. First a poor little boy was puking all over about 8 min into the ride. That was sad and pretty smelly. Second, we were a little tired and it was a sleeper bus....so we were in the bunk bed style seats for the whole day. The whole day as in from 745 AM to 8PM. These as night buses are not bad at all because we are usually passed out but being confined to this 1/2 laying 1/2 sitting contraption was rough. Oh, oh and my bunk was right next to the bus bathroom! Just like Jimmy Johns....free smells all day!
The idea of taking the day bus was to see the beautiful Vietnam on the drive. Beautiful it was...we always miss the scenery on the night bus so I am glad we did it. We would be driving though mountains, then rice patties, going by sand dunes, then along the coast......Vietnam is a very beautiful country!
Some of our guy friends that we met this 1st semester teaching at ABAC just finished a motorbike trip all the way through Vietnam and just wrapped things up down in HCMC so we will be joining them for a few days...HCMC is more populated then Hanoi and I guess even worse traffic....let the frogger games begin.
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