Vietnam

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The first place we landed in Vietnam was Hanoi and it might as well have been Mars. Dave kept saying get me out of here. I wanted to spend at least one day before we headed to the outer parts. We stayed in the old quarter or ancient part of town which is the dirtiest but deffiently has some really weird sights. It is conjested and is really hard to even walk on the side walk because it is covered in vendors,gambling, bars, motorbikes, and pretty much anything else you can think of. It really has your senses pumping and part of the challenge is just making it down the street without getting hit by some sort of vehicle of transportation. We had to cross one of the four lane roads outside the quater to get to a bank one day and Dave got a good jump on the traffic , I hesitated and ended up on the first road line on my tip toes sucking in my butt to avoid the traffic in back and pulling in my gut to avoid the other traffic. Dave was on the other side watching and said to me when I finally reached the other side that he never saw such finese. It was really exciting but time to move on , we are headed for the Sapa Valley and the very famous Halong Bay each time i

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Photos

Hanoi with its sea of people
Here is Mars when it is finally populated by humans....ha ha

Sapa Valley
This is one of the insides of a family home in the Sapa Valley

Another Job for Dave
Although Dave is a good worker and has plenty of enthusiasm sales were down and they had to let him go. He was more suited to the productionn end rather than the sales end

Waterbuffalo
Waterbuffalo are all over in all of the countries here

Bridge in the Sapa Valley
All the bridges in these countries are pretty rickety with rotten and missing boards. They get your heart pumping when it comes time to cross

Viet nam
Black Hmong Tribe in the Sapa Valley

Viet Nam
Sapa Valley Buildings with a French Influence

Halong Bay Viet Nam
Junks that travel in amongst the Karsts

Halong Bay in Viet Nam
There are 1969 Karsts in Halong Bay. We stayed overnight on one of the Junks

Halong Bay
A cave in one of the Karsts

Cat Ba Island
Dave gets a new job. He worked so fast and so hard at making the rice flour that stocks were well past the capacity needed so regretable they laid him off. But, again with all his skills he was hired to help construct huts on the small beautiful Island of Cat Ba

Halong Bay
Fish Farms

Hoian
Check out this boat

Comments

[Alex]

Looks great guys, have fun!

[Dave and Elsie]

Happy birthday Alex
You'll never believe this. I just spent twenty minutes typing out what we did and why I haven't been in contact for the last few days, only to have the internet time run out and loose all my work . Any way we saw a bunch of monkeys on an Island and we had a good time, (Coles notes). Love you guys Ps Happy Birthday in advance Jay We are going to Cambodia in the AM and from there to bangkok and home on April 2or 3, not sure. Love dad.