Sad little cement duck. His buddies all over the city are being executed. 

after eating we went for a walk in Lenin Park 

Our thanksgiving dinner! We decided we were more in the mood for Vietnamese food than hotel-made American thanksgiving food. We went to a restaurant called Wild Rice. I took pictures. First course: crab & corn soup. In reality it was not this weird color, it was just yellow. 

green papaya salad. 

fried prawns with sticky rice 

tuna with grilled eggplant & okra 

dessert - longan & date consomme 

plus a few manhattans 

 

swan boating on west lake 

how many bok choys can you fit on one motorcycle? probably not as many as this guy. 

One of Dean's many teacher's day bouquets. 

 

St Joseph's Cathedral at dusk. 

bags and bags of sticky rice. 

This old guy has no one to make out with - just his newspaper. 

make-out park - but all the parks here are make-out park. 

Dean under a tree. 

cha ca la vong - a 135-year-old restaurant that serves one dish - fish that you cook at your table with dill, green onions and peanuts. 

The temple in Hoan Kiem lake at night. Looks like it is floating through a tree because I took this from the back of the motorcycle.