Vung (puddle) Tau (ships)

Cathy (my friend from church http://www.nlfvietnam.com/ ) and I went to Vung Tau, a smaller touristy town about 1.5 hours away from saigon by boat ($10 one way).  If you ever go get your ticket back to saigon before the scalpers buy up all the tickets and try to rip you off on your way back to saigon (we got lucky and didn’t have to buy from the scalper).  It was a kinda cool town with good seafood and a giant Jesus statue on top of a mountain.  You probably had to walk up about 2-3 hundred stairs to get to it.

Cathy is Canadian and speaks Vietnamese.   Since she can understand what was being said, apparently lot of people thought we were married saying things like: “they’ll have mixed children, ha ha ha” and “so you and your husband have come back to visit the homeland.”  LOL.

At one point we were at some tourist park somewhere along the beach.  You had to pay a little to get in and then you had to pay to sit in a chair.  While I did enjoy sitting along the beach in the wind (although sand did get blown all over you),  I was pretty annoyed that after paying to enter a place which had almost nothing but animal statues and a fountain, I had to pay to sit down.  Maybe it wouldn’t be so bad, but I was sitting/sleeping there for 10 minutes before some guy came up and started yelling at me in vietnamese because I needed to pay him 90 cents to sit there.  it’s vietnam…