While at the ChuChi Tunnels this butterfly landed on one of our group. It was a good thing to see where so much that was not good happened
That night we were picked up at our hotel by Loc and Vy. Betsy has had a Vietnamese couple clean her house for many years. Loc is the mans sister. She recently visited in SF and she came to lunch at Betsys house. She speaks no english, but her 20 year old daughter Vy is quite fluent. Vy is studying english at university. They had hired a driver to bring them into the city in their car. They own the car but do not drive. Vy does drive a motor scooter. They ordered many dishes for us.
This is the pot on boiling broth. We had a pork and noodle soup. First the pork, noodles and some vegetables are put into your bowl. Then the broth is added. The broth is delicious. We don't know what it is. Below is the finishes soup
Below is where our dessert came from. Mine was from the yellow bowl. It is a corn mixture. First the corn goes into your bowl, then a coconut sauce is poured over the top. Quite good. Betsys started with a bean mixture and then got the coconut sauce.
Bit of a traffic jam on the way back to the hotel. Not many rules of the road.
Below is Saigon post office where we changed money. I was rejected at the first atm I tried and found out after a bit of a panic that it didn't take master card. I needed to move two machines down. $1 = 20,000 dong. I became an instant millionaire.
The short building in the front is the old American embassy where evacuation took place at the close of the war.
We visited a workshop where wooden pieces are decorated with paint or egg shells (duck) We preferred the egg shells.
Below done with egg shells. After decoration, 14 layers of lacquer are applied
On to the airport. Flying to daNang. Plane delayed. Heard again that flight was delayed further so betsy got us approval for meal voucher. We took our two new friends from SF with us to the restaurant. Before ordering Tim said he was going to back and check the the departure board to make sure what we heard was correct. While the three of us left were try to decide between the leg off chicken and the stir fry, tim came running back to say that our flight was boarding. Lunch then became mini bananas and cookies from the stash.
Above is famous bridge in DaNang. The yellow on the side is actually a giant dragon. This area was one of the worst affected by agent orange.
Dinner with our SF friends
Below is custard apple provided by Tran. He also shared jack fruit, durian and another ball like fruit we don't remember the name of.
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