Photo Catch Up, Hanoi, Hue and Hoi An

The Chinese influence was once strong here and most things that are old were made by ethnic Chinese

Uncle Ho! We went to see his resting place it was an amazing place. this is not from the site, no cameras where allowed. Also no pointing, smiling, laughing, stopping, no short sleeves, no shirts and no bags.It was an amazing room, i will remember it always. he was lying in a glass coffin, with three lights shinning on him from above, one on his face the other two on each of his hands. He looked very peaceful. Behind him where two huge red marble walls one with the Soviet Union Hammer and Sickle in gold and the other wall was adorned with the Vietnam Star, also in gold. I was really taken aback by it, truly. He leaves for two months out of the year and goes to Russia to get his makeup done and to stretch his legs. They love Ho Chi Minh, but his last dieing wish was to be cremated and yet, well, there he was, they just couldn't let go.

the outside of the complex that holds the dear leader

we ate lunch after that. Street food is what i eat 98% of the time and they have these little chairs that most people seem to sit on perfectly. Mine crumbled under my American weight. They were to busy laughing to be angry about the chair.

The Oreo King, I think i mentioned that Ludwig thinks about food 80 percent of the day and 60 percent of that time he uses to scout out the Oreo prices. in this pic we are dining on the only food we have in the thousand year old literature temple in Hanoi. It was the home of Vietnam's first university and a very tasty lunch

they studied this guy, Confucius.

Dragons can be found everywhere you look and there are some amazing ones, Hue, Vietnam

you can find them on old stuff

or on the roofs, Hoi An, A really neat small city where dragons and donuts flow like wine

 We had a favorite donut kart woman or whatever you call her, we loved her and she loved us, we got them for half the cost, i credit the beards, the Vietnamese don't really grow a good beard, they are good at growing really long mole hair though, i will give'em that.

More Dragons, i really dig em

think about having this in your court yard?!??!!!! someday, someday

Doing my best dragon, i think i'm quite good

We made our rounds of all the old stuff in the city of Hoi An, the sad part was most of it had been converted into at least a part time souvenir shop, New Topic, i just looked down and i can see a foot poking through the wall under me and i am not sure whats its attached too, i am fighting the urged to tickle it, actually it looks quite dirty, its time to leave, oh, oh, its moving, well at least i know its alive, you never know in Vietnam

One more quick one, this foot is getting to me, Ludwig and i needed a place to eat some street food we had gotten at a market, it was raining and there was a 20 person lunch party going on and we found ourselves, after and hour and a half, eight beers deep, screaming "Yooooo" and also, ready for a nap. this is from Hue in the old town. I got my first dose of Ho Chi Minh's revenge that afternoon, spent all evening keeping Charmin in business. i am a little more conscious about where i get my pork chops from now on, i wont just get them from any toothless lady on the street, she has to have shoes from now on.