After our last post, we spent the rest of the day in Bangkok. Highlights of the day include meeting a baby elephant in the street (a baby elephant was taller than me, but alot smaller than I envision an elephant - hence, baby) , ate pizza with corn, pineapples, tomatoes, onions and mushrooms with the cheesist crust possible (yup, we're in Asia and had a western meal....), managed to take the subway, called the BTS, to the downtown area where Carrie works, spend a couple hours walking around and return without getting lost!
Best part of Bangkok: street food on every corner, buying a piece of raw meat wrapped in seaweed and eating it (I actually thought that's how the thai's eat it...little did I know that they just store it in the seaweed before they cook it), and the crazy tuktuk ride.
Now, on to Vietnam.
We arrived in Hanoi last night, on a small plane that didn't have AC. We found our hotel ($10/night), had a quick dinner and went to sleep around 11pm. Now, to put this in perspective (pictures will be added later), our room is tiny, without windows and has a shower head above the toilet. At about 2:00, we woke up. Man, were we pissed - we thought jet lag had stolen whole day from us. We both showered quickly, got dressed and walked downstairs to start the day. But, it was still dark outside!!!!! Man...we were confused. Back to bed...
We woke up, ate some soup (typical vietnamese breakfast) and strange egg pancake some beers and we were on our way. Hanoi has about 3.5m residents, and it's rumored to have more than 3m motorcycles. Everywhere you look, there are motorcyles and bikes. It's not like there aren't a plethora of idiot driving cabs, either...there's both. Stop lights practically don't exist, and when they are, no one cares. Everyone just drives, and swerves...and honks nonestop.
After breakfast, we tested our luck on the back of a bike and went to an ethnology musuem and booked our trip to Halong Bay for the next 3 days...
We forgot the cord to upload pics in the internet cafe, so you'll have to wait until we get back to Hanoi on the 9th to upload some more!
6 comments:
You guys are so cute and I am just sooo glad that you are having fun. I miss you both oh so much. I'm home and you guys aren't even here to hang out with me. So sad.
Love you both and be safe!!!!
Yo kids!!!
Your in our prayers... Matt less pictures of you and more of the ladies... : )
Reminds me of my covert days with the CIA. Never new what country we were in. Taking down King Kong (code, most of you would not understand) sharp shooting all the chickens with bird flu virus (again code talk, so boring, yet its my life)
Ok all joking around, be safe in the good ole north.... Put another shrimp on the barbi mate.....
Asia the land of Lincoln...
The crazy part, im not even drinking. I only hung out with gram and your mom today....
Love ya and really dont miss you based on I never see ya even when your only 30 minutes away.
Next time im coming with.... whooooooooooooooo
Love you
- Jack
new knew its still the same...
Kevin, this could be your chance... Matt might find you a bride on trade. hmmmmmm
JP,
as long as matt has better taste than you, i don't mind if he finds me a wife.
Just make sure she's older than 15 matt.... wouldn't want to have that in common with jack
M&E
Make sure you read about Siem Reap before you start touring the temples...there's so much to learn there. (*I only told you that about 3 months ago..hope it's not too late. Buy a book from the amazing English speaking, souvenir hawking, 4-5 year old Cambodian kids by the temples. They know relatively perfect English, but their parents watching them be awesome salesmen, don't!)
Maybe you guys should take a bicycle ride to Angor Wat from the city...by my estimation - about 20 minute pedal by bike (in the 95 degree heat).
Love Dad
Hey Elizabeth and Matt! Sounds like a good time so far. I hope you got a picture of that baby elephant! :) We miss you here in Chicago. ~Allison
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