Winnie Post 2: Viet Nam

Up at 6 and checked email - that was fun to be connected to you all!  This afternoon Ha My and I spent time together - we went to Hanoi Hilton Prison where John McCain was held.  Interesting that the part of the prison open was staged about the French invasion of Viet Nam, little about the 'Viet Nam war.  The prison was built by the French but used by the Vietnamese from 1964-1973.  As Ha My stated, there wouldn't be much on the war as it might put the country in a bad light.  

We spent the morning looking at Hoan Kiem Lake and an old temple there in.  Lots of history but one temple begins to look like another...yet in the afternoon we went thru the Temple of Literature which dates back to 1300!  Now I hope we can be templed out!

Then we went to the Dong Xuan Market which is amazing...it is a market place that is packed w/ stalls of everything you can imagine from suitcases to purses to foods to kids clothing to fabric.  Unbelievably packed w/ merchandise - so packed that it is hard to move.  Bought nothing but fun to putter.

Duy Man sick all day so never saw him at all - so dinner was just Ha My, Beav, and me - went to a great restaurant where we sat at low tables on on lower benches.  Food delicious and the bill for the three of us was $10.00!!!  Tomorrow we get our new outfits - w/out trying them on (scary) - and the party for Ha My and Beav is tomorrow night.  

We walked miles and I am ready for bed!