Vietnam

Top: Brent in the middle of celebration around Hoan Kiem Lake in Hanoi
Bottom: Dinner at local place with tiny table and chairs, but delicious and cheap food

Top: Marianne trying sticky rice cooked in bamboo (yum) for 25 cents... and looking much larger than the Vietnamese around her ha!
Bottom: Brent put to work in the rice field in Mai Chau

Vietnam has been such an incredible experience.. .highly exceeded our expectations. We also happened to align our trip (unknowingly) to the 1000 year founding celebration of Hanoi so the place was filled with so much energy, street shows and decorations. We were lucky to have "accidentally" picked this time.

We had the opportunity to visit a small village called Mai Chau, west of Hanoi. We stayed in a stilt house owned by ethnically Thai people. The people there were so fantastic and it was such a change of pace from Hanoi. We were fed SO MUCH FOOD for every meal... like three of four meat options. I've never been fed so much in my life. We're off to Hong Kong now!