We are finally in a hotel with air conditioning. Ally and Hannah went walking around and I stayed closer to the hotel. We met the American family here at the hotel late afternoon. They said newspeople were at Frienship Village again today. I forgot to tell you that Wed we did so much work in the organic garden, the gardener was able to take Thursday off. Friday the volunteers were putting dung on the soil and tilling it....did not smell too bad. I felt like the experienced tour guide when the American family from Chicago got here. We walked around the lake and showed them the Water Puppet Theater, Fanny's ice cream, air conditioned mall and the shoe street. I am still amazed all these little shops can stay in buisness when they sell similar things. We finally ate dinner at the Green Gecko. It was nice to exchange stories. They actually treated us. How very kind of them.
Sat we woke up after another nice night sleep. Oh, \i for got to tell you we moved our room from 502 on the 6th floor to 302. Let me give you a brief lesson on Vietnam architecture. All the buildings are very thin. Our hotel has only 3 rooms per floor and the 1st floor is the 2nd floor. The point is when we were in room 502, we had to walk up 6 flights of stairs with outside humid air into our airconditioned room. We got the room switched Friday to the third floor, thank goodness. I have survived the adventure so far, I do not want anything silly to happen now.
Sat morning I came down to the lobby and heard the news that a typhoon was going to hit Northern Vietnam this evening. Allison had an overnight sleepertrain scheduled to take her to a special ethnic village in nothern Vietnam. The train ride is 12 hrs. The typhoon was down graded to a tropical storm. She does not want to loose her money for the trip, but it seems kinda silly to travel to a remote area of Vietnam with tropical storm winds and rains. What if land erosion causes problems with the train track. Reluctantly, she just left to canel her trip and get 50% back. I also bribed her with a special purchae here too. Actually she was waiting to see if they would cancel so she could get all her money back....tough decisions for some......now she has to go back at 7 pm when the manager is there....some things just are not easy.
Today we walked around and did some souvenir shopping. We went to the supermarket in the mall and bought some snacks to tide us through the storm, if we may need them. The weather is actually pretty nice with the breeze...I just wonder how bad it will be..... We bought Ritz crackers, peanutbutter, raisin bread, hot sauce to bring home,and something else for 100,000dong- 5 $ Another saying in Vietnam is everyone is a millionaire. 1,000,000dong is 50$. I have to be careful with my money. Al is also getting annoyed with being a tourist and being charged more. I can not let it upset me.
Allison will add more. We are just relaxing a bit now....I think we earned it. Thanks for all the well wishes and prayers for our safe return after the tropical storm. I am not sure how to interpert weather forecast....if we read it on weather.com in Vietnam, is it American time or Vietnam time.?
Sat we woke up after another nice night sleep. Oh, \i for got to tell you we moved our room from 502 on the 6th floor to 302. Let me give you a brief lesson on Vietnam architecture. All the buildings are very thin. Our hotel has only 3 rooms per floor and the 1st floor is the 2nd floor. The point is when we were in room 502, we had to walk up 6 flights of stairs with outside humid air into our airconditioned room. We got the room switched Friday to the third floor, thank goodness. I have survived the adventure so far, I do not want anything silly to happen now.
Sat morning I came down to the lobby and heard the news that a typhoon was going to hit Northern Vietnam this evening. Allison had an overnight sleepertrain scheduled to take her to a special ethnic village in nothern Vietnam. The train ride is 12 hrs. The typhoon was down graded to a tropical storm. She does not want to loose her money for the trip, but it seems kinda silly to travel to a remote area of Vietnam with tropical storm winds and rains. What if land erosion causes problems with the train track. Reluctantly, she just left to canel her trip and get 50% back. I also bribed her with a special purchae here too. Actually she was waiting to see if they would cancel so she could get all her money back....tough decisions for some......now she has to go back at 7 pm when the manager is there....some things just are not easy.
Today we walked around and did some souvenir shopping. We went to the supermarket in the mall and bought some snacks to tide us through the storm, if we may need them. The weather is actually pretty nice with the breeze...I just wonder how bad it will be..... We bought Ritz crackers, peanutbutter, raisin bread, hot sauce to bring home,and something else for 100,000dong- 5 $ Another saying in Vietnam is everyone is a millionaire. 1,000,000dong is 50$. I have to be careful with my money. Al is also getting annoyed with being a tourist and being charged more. I can not let it upset me.
Allison will add more. We are just relaxing a bit now....I think we earned it. Thanks for all the well wishes and prayers for our safe return after the tropical storm. I am not sure how to interpert weather forecast....if we read it on weather.com in Vietnam, is it American time or Vietnam time.?
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