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Tet – Vietnamese New Year January 29, 2009

These are all Chinese new year pictures, tet.  It lasts like 4 days.

 I’m in a picture with a girl who looks a lot like a vietnamese version of my old room mate, Mayra, in one of them.  The picture was taken at “Seventeen Saloon” in District 1 in the “backpacker” part of town where all the tourist are always staying.  Seventeen Saloon is the most unique “club” in Saigon providing more like live shows than a club atmosphere.  They have 2 seperated levels as the show areas, and in you stay in one area you end up seening two live bands, some dancers, some fire bottle jugglers, and a game show.  

There’s also a picture of Kathy and two of her friends on her birthday. Then there is a picture of 4 other girsl, some from NLF church and others from this mostly american chruch out here that meets in different areas.  Some of the houses in district 2 (where they once met) were gigantic, like mini modern castles.  I wonder how much they cost as they’re relatively in a pretty remote area without many people.  I’ll have to go back there and take pictures of these mini house castles…

“Lac canh dai nam van hien” theme park January 29, 2009

we went to the theme park www.laccanhdainamvanhien.vn.  It isn’t finished yet so there were a lot of empty parts and overall not a whole lot to do.  They did have some rides, a zoo, a haunted house, a big buddist temple thing, and some fake mountains.  If you go here bring toilet paper because they don’t have any in the bathrooms.  The girl I’m with in some pictures is Nhi’s friend.  She doesn’t speak any English, but it was fun to go with her.

IN OTHER (useful) NEWS:

Mapquest / Google maps type site for ho chi minh city http://www.1650km.com/ & http://diadiem.com/

My Tho Province January 29, 2009

we went out to a park at a province for a bit.  it wasn’t much but had a few things to see, including a monkey