Hello friends and family! :) Margot and I safely arrived to Da Nang after spending a 15 hr layover in Ho Chi Minh City. We arrived in Ho Chi Minh City New Year's Eve and after getting our luggage/going thru customs, we were greeted by a mob of people outside the airport all hailing cabs at 11:45pm. Happy New Year!!! :) First impressions from our cab ride to our hotel: there's not much street lights going on, New Year's Eve is not a huge celebration night (their Tet is soon coming up), and things looked unfamiliar to anything else I've seen. The heat, humidity and smells however seemed surprisingly nostalgic of childhood summers/visits to grandma and grandpa in florida. After getting settled in to our hotel room, Margot and I shared a celebratory New Year's Heinekin
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