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Amelia, Round The Other Side!
Today was pouring with rain and when i mean pouring i mean anough to flood!!!!! when it rains it rains!!!! Probably not the best day to trapes around sightseeing at the museums but ah well the rain didnt last. We went to ho chi mhin resting place first but didnt get there in time for it closing! you can only go and view his body till 11am each day and we spent so log sorting our bus tickets out that even with a taxi we never got there in time!! we got absolutely soaked though! even with water proofs on! it looked impressive from the outside though...even in the rain! we hd the option of wandering around the grounds of his house but it was just too wet so we decided to head for the army museum. Half way there we discovered that it closed at 11am till 1pm!!! ha ha just our luck in the rai! after being hassled by motorbike taxis and one offering his "services" for 1 million dong! (was he buying or seeling??) it stopped raining and we found a cafe and had lunch and waited for the museum to open. I had a vietnamise coffe which is a drip coffee with condense milk and it was so biter made me feel sick and have had very bad heartburn since....it might be the copious amounts of bread i ahve consumed over the past few days! the vietnamese and loas people certainly learned how to make bread from the fench!!! yum! the army museum was really good still dont quite understandwhy america got involved or what side they were really on but i did learn tha during the 2nd world war france were actually at war with oth germany and south eats asia....i didnt know that! one of he most intersting things about the museum was that they would have guns and say exactlyhow mnay american or freh it killed or how mnay planes it shot down or that this cross bow killed x amount! was a little disturbing which is etting me a little anxious about the war museums down south and in cambodia! It also told the story of how the american people were against the war! we also visited the Ho Lin prison museum but thankfully that wasnt as disturbing. we then went to the airforve museu but it was closed!!!!!! the gaurd let us in to look at the mig though which was outside the museum! that was cool! couldnt it in it like we thought as it was closed....wanted to sit in a mig man! Anyway heading south tonight on hopefully a much nicer bus!
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