When we woke up up mom's hand was puffed up. Not with any sort of liquid but with blood. She didn't go with us touring today because she was going to go to the hospital and get an X-ray. Luckily we found out later it wasn't broken.
We started off touring with our guide to Ho Chi Minh's mausoleum. The mausoleum showed Ho Chi Minh's preserved body in a glass chamber. To see his body we had to be respectful by not putting our hands in our pockets, no pictures, and to not wear a hat. Also you have to stand in a line because only so many people aloud in at a time. Ho Chi Minh was the first president of independent Vietnam. He also started the Communism in Vietnam. Inside the big Mausoleum was his body, nothing else besides some reithes and the guards. We also got to look at where he lived. One of the homes he lived in was small but was by his Koi pond. The house was donated by the Thai Vietnamese people. Another thing looked at was the small pagoda over the water.
We drove with our guide to our next stop the first university In Vietnam. It didn't really look like a university to me it looked more like a temple, and it was also a temple.
On our way to lunch we saw a bird store on the side of the road selling little birds. It made me want to visit one. It was packed at lunch. We were one of the only tourists there. We had a multi-course lunch with local foods. For dessert we had a weird drink that was white with stuff in it, not my favorite dessert.
We walked straight from lunch to the "Hanoi Hilton" This prison was built when the French were controlling Vietnam. The people that they imprisoned here were political activists. Some of the prisoners even got killed by a guillotine. The prison was also used to imprison American bombers during the Vietnam War that were shot down. John McCain was imprisoned in the Hanoi Hilton.
We drove to the Old Town of Hanoi and the first thing we did is we walked to the bird shop. They were selling mainly little birds, we bough two. The birds we bought were only $1 each. And of course we weren't going to keep them. We released them into the city. Me and Uncle Ben were the two that had the birds. The bird experience was funny.
We walked around Old Town and then met up with mom for the Water Puppet Show. The Water Puppet Show is a puppet show in the water and controlled by the puppeteers behind hanging matts. They skits were mainly pretty short and was my favorite puppet show I have been to on this trip to Asia. After the show we walked round the lake to a temple on a little island. There is a myth about a turtle that still lives in the lake near the temple and there was a metal statue of the enormous turtle.
At the hotel we ate at the buffet, swam in the pool and hot tub, and made ice balls in the men's locker room.
We started off touring with our guide to Ho Chi Minh's mausoleum. The mausoleum showed Ho Chi Minh's preserved body in a glass chamber. To see his body we had to be respectful by not putting our hands in our pockets, no pictures, and to not wear a hat. Also you have to stand in a line because only so many people aloud in at a time. Ho Chi Minh was the first president of independent Vietnam. He also started the Communism in Vietnam. Inside the big Mausoleum was his body, nothing else besides some reithes and the guards. We also got to look at where he lived. One of the homes he lived in was small but was by his Koi pond. The house was donated by the Thai Vietnamese people. Another thing looked at was the small pagoda over the water.
We drove with our guide to our next stop the first university In Vietnam. It didn't really look like a university to me it looked more like a temple, and it was also a temple.
On our way to lunch we saw a bird store on the side of the road selling little birds. It made me want to visit one. It was packed at lunch. We were one of the only tourists there. We had a multi-course lunch with local foods. For dessert we had a weird drink that was white with stuff in it, not my favorite dessert.
We walked straight from lunch to the "Hanoi Hilton" This prison was built when the French were controlling Vietnam. The people that they imprisoned here were political activists. Some of the prisoners even got killed by a guillotine. The prison was also used to imprison American bombers during the Vietnam War that were shot down. John McCain was imprisoned in the Hanoi Hilton.
We drove to the Old Town of Hanoi and the first thing we did is we walked to the bird shop. They were selling mainly little birds, we bough two. The birds we bought were only $1 each. And of course we weren't going to keep them. We released them into the city. Me and Uncle Ben were the two that had the birds. The bird experience was funny.
We walked around Old Town and then met up with mom for the Water Puppet Show. The Water Puppet Show is a puppet show in the water and controlled by the puppeteers behind hanging matts. They skits were mainly pretty short and was my favorite puppet show I have been to on this trip to Asia. After the show we walked round the lake to a temple on a little island. There is a myth about a turtle that still lives in the lake near the temple and there was a metal statue of the enormous turtle.
At the hotel we ate at the buffet, swam in the pool and hot tub, and made ice balls in the men's locker room.
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