Good Morning Vietnam

First day in Vietnam we ate breakfast and as soon as the ship was cleared we got off and took the shuttle to the town center.  We walked to the War Memorial Museum.  It was a very depressing place, but a good thing to see.  They had everything from pictures of Agent Orange victims and those born to the people that came into contact with it, to airplanes and tanks, to pictures and artwork done on the American War (or what we call the Vietnam War), and stories of individuals who lost their entire families.   We went back to the ship for a quick lunch before my friend Laura and I had a field trip to the school for the deaf & Zoo.  It was fun to take them too the Zoo, even though they were crazy excited and running around everywhere they had fun seeing the animals.  When we got back to the ship my friends and I went out to eat and walk around.  It is a lot of fun to cross the street here, and by fun I mean scary and exciting and really cool at the same time.  There aren’t a lot of traffic laws here so when you want to cross the street you look both ways and then walk out into a sea of motorcycles (the primary mode of transportation), you maintain a steady pace and the motorcycles adjust there path to flow around you.   The only things you have to watch out for are buses and trucks.  The buses are crazy (so we have been told) and just might run over you if you aren’t careful.  While walking around we found a place that sells DVD’s for what converts to 50 cents a disk.  We bought a lot of movies.  We took the shuttle back to the ship.  It was a very long day but we decided to go ahead and start one of the movies we had got.  It was a good long day!