Last day in Vietnam

My last day in Vietnam I had a field trip to the Cu Chi Tunnels.  We left at 7 am and arrived to the tunnels at around 9.  It was a very cool experience to go through the tunnels in a doubled over crouching walk.  We were told that these tunnels had even been widened for tourists.  We all came out of the tunnels sticky and sweaty from all the people and the hotness of the tunnels.  We made it back to the ship by 12:30, just in time to have lunch.  After lunch I took the shuttle bus to the town center and sat in a park and drew for about an hour or so.  I then decided that I should use up the last of my dong (Vietnamese currency) at the market, so I started walking towards the market thinking that maybe I would stop and get some ice cream on the way.  As I walked up the street towards an ice cream shop I saw Jen and Evergreen sitting.  I was so surprised to see them.  I ate ice cream with them and we told each other about our day so far.  Then Evergreen went back to the ship and Jen went with me to the market.  I managed to use up the rest of our dong on a shirt and some material for myself when it again started to rain.  I was again the only one with a rain poncho so we decided to wait in the market for a while and see if the rain would let up.  While waiting we met up with Megan (another friend) we finally decided that it wasn’t going to let up very much more so I took everyone’s bags and put the poncho on over myself and all of them and we took off to the Rex Hotel, about 4 blocks away, where the shuttle bus would pick us up and take us to the ship.  We were soaked by the time we got to the Rex.  Even I with the poncho on was soaked from my knees down (Our bags were good and dry).  Once on the ship again we changed and had a BBQ dinner.  Vietnam was an interesting country.