White Rice, Spring Rolls and Hanoi Oh My!

Trip Start Nov 12, 2008
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Trip End Dec 02, 2008

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Sunday, November 30, 2008

After a half day relaxing and getting what could be considered the world's...oddest massages we jumped onto a very crowded ferry boat and headed back to the bus. A few hours later, we were in Hanoi and having dinner at Tamerind, our favorite restaurant in Hanoi (i.e. the only restaurant we know in Hanoi since the HandSpan office is inside of it). When we were full of good vegetarian food we caught a cab that drove us exactly 1.5 blocks then the driver pointed to the very busy street where the street fair/market was going on and pulled our luggage from the cab. This left us walking through the excessively crowded streets with booths set up in the middle of it and people walking on either side as we lugged our stuff a few blocks in search of our hotel.

But we found it and all is good. We have this one last night and all day tomorrow. This means that our bags are packed (mostly) and we get a short tour of Hanoi in the morning, play in the the afternoon, eat a last good dinner of Vietnamese food before most of us (all of us) happily say good by to white rice and spring rolls as we've all had more of both than we've had in our lifetimes. Oh, and then we gather our luggage and head to the airport. We'll be home soon. And unlike the few people we've met who were either on their way to Thailand or just returned from a 24 hour bus ride through Laos to get out of Thailand, we have tickets on our flights and if all goes well will be home soon.

24 hours to go. And we're ready to make the most of it in that time, traveling with great people.
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