Final days in Ho Chi Minh City!

So tonight is the night we catch a night bus to Rach Gia and then a boat to Phu Quoc! I'm super excited to see the island, because it looks beautiful and it's just exciting to move and see another new place.  I'm sad to leave Ho Chi Minh, the city is wonderful, so much to do and always something going on.  Not to mention its super cheap.

Last night Aspen and I ended up going to a water puppet show.  Very cool, the puppets did all sorts of effects on the water like spit water into the audience and blow fire and even smoke came out of the water! I am under the impression there was a story line but it was hard to folllow considering the characters talked in Vietnamese.  I took plenty of videos still, to give folks back home a taste of a water puppet show.

Before the show started, two guys sat behind us and one guy broke the seat he sat in.  They were younger guys and I started laughing at the guy and we ended up chatting.  After the puppet show we all met up at a local bar and got to know eachother.  One guy, Gergely (pronounced something like gargar) was from Hungary.  He had a thick accent and we had guessed he was French at first, were we ever wrong.  The other guy, Micheal, was from Ireland and had called us out on being Canadians right away.  Mostly because I apparently gave it away by saying eh alot.  I'm working on not saying it anymore.

While we were sitting at the bar, a young Vietnamese boy was entertaining everyone in our area.  He must have been around 7 or 8 and had so much charisma it was unbelievable.  He was dancing and chatting the tourists up like nothing.  He even told one tourist that the police walking around were "his" police and they answered to him! He was conning tourists into buying stuff he was selling by playing rock paper scisors with them. Best out of 5.  I lost so I bought something but the kid was so cute people bought stuff from him regardless if they won or not.  I deffinitly got some great videos of this kid chatting everyone up too.

Gergely had just came through Cambodia and apparently hated it but that hasn't dampered our spirits about going there.  If its as dirty as he said we will have to see it for ourselves and can just motor through and go right on through to Thailand.  Micheal had been traveling for 9 months already and had been to many countries.  South America and India to name a few.  He planned to continue through Cambodia, Thailand, and Laos in Asia and then onto Australia and New Zealand too.  Maybe I'll cancel my flight home and just continue my world travels too...

Apparently I had a very thick Canadian accent too and sounded like a female version of bubbles of trailor park boys.  So flattering to hear that.

We spent our last day in the city by going to the Cu Chi tunnels.  They were tunnels the Vietnamese created during the war to escape the Americans and hide from them.  They were so tiny they had to build bigger ones that allowed tourists to be able to crawl through.  They also had AK47's to shoot as well as other war artillery but we decided to wait until Cambodia to shoot guns because it most likely will be cheaper.

We had the opportunity to crawl through the tunnels and we took advantage of it.  There were escapes about every ten meters or so and we had planned to do the full 100 meter crawl.  While we were in the tunnels at about the 20 meter mark, the lights went out and then a few more meters we passed an escape and then the tunnel dropped. Aspen was in front of me and she passed the escape and realized it was going down and didn't want to go on.  People are crawling right behind me as she turns and around and announces she won't go any farther.  So I stop and created a little traffic jam and then push my way backwards until we can exit.

It was crazy though, my heart was racing just from hearing Aspen panick in the tiny tunnel! I didn't mind getting out either considering it was so hot and stuffy in the tunnel and my shirt was almost all wet with sweat. Yummy.

At the end of the tour we al climbed back onto our bus to go back to the city when we realized the largest man was missing! We couldn't leave him so our guide went searching for him.  He was a larger man so I was thinking it was a good possibiliy he had a heart attack from the heat or something! Nope turns out he missed the educational video we got to see at the end of the tour and was watching it again by himself.  Not a thought in the world for the entire tour bus waiting for him, what a guy.

Anyways its about time to head out of this internet cafe and maybe find a bite to eat before the bus picks us up! Later alligators!

Ps. Chayse Rembowski, I know you read this and if not mother will pass the message on and I do plan to come home eventually, if anything is out of order in my room, I will send all your wonderful gifts back to Vietnam. DO NOT think this is an empty threat my friend!