Ho Chi Minh City

We left for HCMC yesterday, our flight left Chiang Mai at 12:40 p.m. and we arrived in HCMC at 5:40 p.m. We didn't get to our hotel until 8p.m. This was due to waiting to get our visa's. It's such a long process. Get in the visa line, turn in your pass ports with all your letters saying you're coming into the country. Wait. ..... Wait some more. .... Get tired of waiting but continue to wait. 

  

Finally, we left for our hotel, The White Hotel. Needless to say, there are 3 White Hotels. We were dropped off at #1, walked to #2 which we thought was ours but we're told we needed to be at #3. :) 

We waited for our friend Chit, who Pat had met the previous year when he and Zac came to Vietnam. She took us to dinner at a place called Wrap and Roll. We had spring rolls and hot pot beef. It was good and fresh with lettuce, basil, mint, cucumber, and jack fruit. 

Chit then took us to a roof top bar to listen to some acoustic music. The gentleman who hosted the music was from Minnesota. It was an open mic night so several people came up to sing who were quite good. 

Time to go to bed .... Up early to leave for Hanoi.

We're up early and ready to leave by 7, downstairs they have breakfast but we have no time BUT we need coffee, Cafe Sui Dom .... It's the best coffee ever.