Hanoi

When I got to Hanoi we literally settled into our hostel and ran out the door to meet Mei Li's friends at a vietnamese place. When we get there I met Hoa, Mai, and Thum and Mai had a vietnamese SIM card for my phone that cost $1 and she said would last my whole trip --- amazing! I love locals. We partied on with a kareoke night, saw all the museums and Ho Chi Minh stuff the next day, and then that night we went to see the waterpuppet show (which was AWESOME).

The next day was more museums, cafes, and shopping - but it ended more atypically. Thum, the babe 29 yr old vietnamese girl, had kind of taken a liking to me and I asked her out to drinks, problem was she needed to head back to her hometown that night. The good part was she ASKED ME TO COME. You know what I was thinking... and it turned out to be completely WRONG!!!!!!!! hahaha.

I rode out of Hanoi all packed up and on the back of her brother's motorbike. We rode 1 hour north to a small village where her and her brother are actually from. Met her mother, brother, grandmother - the whole 9 yards. We had a traditional Vietnamese dinner and then went out on the town for coffee and drinks. Problem is at the end of the night - thum told me I was staying with her brother! hahaha. awkward. Her brother spoke no english at all and we literally slept together in his queen size bed with a mosquito net all around us and watched a few movies together. It was alright... but a little gay.

Thum gave me a ride back to Hanoi, I was too late for the bus to Halong bay so I decided to just go around town for the next few hours looking for trouble... and, of course, I found it on a street corner in the form of 2 americans 1 brit and a Bai Hoi place.

More on this later -- I gotta go back to the room to wake up Yang Yang (yea, sorry you guys don't know about her yet), rent a motorbike with Stephano and Christinae (yea you don't know them either), and try to ride 2 hours outside of Hoi An to see some ancient ruins -- wish us luck!