Vietnam Airlines gives you a full meal even if your flight is less than two hours!
Brand new nice airport in Hanoi
It was exciting to see all the stuff that you could fit on the back of a motorbike (that's a full size mattress). . . but then after about five minutes we got used to it and none of it was shocking anymore.
Classic tall, skinny houses in Hanoi
Welcome juice from the hotel
Our hotel room in Hanoi, beautiful flowers everywhere, top floor of the hotel.
Such a comfortable hotel.
The view from our hotel room.
The red bridge on Hoan Kiem lake.
Pictures do not do justice to the chaos of the streets in Hanoi.
French opera houes in the French quarter
Our ride to dinner
Lynne's crispy Vietnamese pancake Bahn Xeo with bean sprouts, herbs, Viet sauce
Kit's pho soup
Hoan Kiem lake
This is the street right next to our hotel, tons of restaurants with people sitting far into the street.
On the way to Halong Bay. Tall skinny buildings not even next to other buildings. Learned that Vietnamese pay property tax based on how wide your building is.
Rice fields
Our room on the ship. It was cozy, but pretty big for being on a boat!
Door into our room, beautiful cherry wood and details all over the cruise ship.
Haven't even left the harbor and can't help but take pictures.
Kit liked this boat with boats on it. Was from Taiwan delivering new tug boats.
The first lunch on the cruise--sitting with our friends from Singapore.
It was amazing to eat up at the front while we were leaving the harbor
Singapore friends kayaking around the karsts
Have you ever seen him so relaxed?
Our ship, Indochina Junk!
Our tour guide telling us about the limestone. Limestone = caves.
Aforementioned cave!
One of the most beautiful sunsets ever.
Our captain
Fruit and vegetable sculptures at dinner
Another, larger ship anchored near us for the night.
Early morning fisherman fishing with his hands and ROWING WITH HIS FEET
Big boat during the day
The different layers of karsts fading away in the distance
Rowing to the floating fishing village
Our tour guide
Bye bye Halong, it was real.
Water puppet show on the drive back, traditional Vietnamese past time. Cooler than we thought it would be.
Posting a letter to home
Two tiny buildings barely a doorway wide (remember the property tax!)
Electrical system?
Motorbike
Building construction
Festival lights
Celebrating 70 years of communism in Vietnam
A street performance. Literally in the street. People would just pull their motorbike off the road and watch.
Model of what Hoa Lo prison looked like
The apartment building next to the prison.
The famous tree (had a role in an escape attempt)
The actual guillotine that the French used
Mannequin showing how prisoners were kept with their feet locked down on an upward angle.
John McCain's flight suit
My Bun Cha
The "sweet soup" dessert
The military museum in Hanoi
Trying to remember the subway route to our hotel in Seoul.
The blue roof of official residence for President of Korea. You can't stop your car but we did a drive by and took a picture.
Outside a Buddhist temple
Nice Seoul
Changing of the guard ceremony at Gyeongbokgung Palace
Gyeongbokgung Palace
The mountains behind Seoul were cozy
Kit kept saying how similar it felt to the Forbidden City in Beijing, except blue instead of red... and nicer.
Very detailed roof tiles
We were missing Addy...cute kids at the museum
Zodiac statues
Our Korean tour guide Jae, cooking our meat at lunch. The vacuum thing above the grill is to absorb the smoke from the charcoal.
Home at last, both of us dazed to be back.
How cute is she!?!
Water puppet show
crazy streets
street performance
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