Today we woke up back at the normal time of 8am. We were planning to buy a chair at one of the resorts for the day and say there all day so we wanted to get an early start. We grabbed breakfast at Joe's Live Music Bar, which also happened to be a hotel/resort. We walked all the way through the restaurant and were able to sit right by the ocean.
Such a beautiful town! There were people doing yoga in an open space right behind us while we were eating breakfast. We totally would have joined in but we didn't have workout clothes (or we actually are just being lazy bones).
After breakfast we headed to the resort. We drove right up to the main entrance and were denied at the front desk...we were so confused because the guy by the chairs told us we could buy a chair. We realized he probably was going to pocket the money and it is against the resort policy. I was a little bummed and felt like a loser.
We walked down the block to our stomping ground from yesterday and set up camp. We laid around for awhile and soaked in the sun. The water today was a little cooler but honestly felt better and cooled us down a little more. I got some sun burn yesterday so after some sun soaking I complained enough that Alex let us go grab lunch and get out of the sun.
We ate Bunh My again and chilled at our bungalow. This time we got three instead of two, but they honestly don't fill you up much. So delicious tho. After lunch we did some quick laundry and relaxed (wrote, read, and played cribbage). We headed back to the beach for a quick dip and then of to the red dunes. It was getting late so we made our way to the dunes, took a quick look, and went back to our place before it got too dark.
We're going to see the white dunes tomorrow, which are much bigger (and high on the Trip Advisor list) so I wasn't too worried about rushing the red sand dunes.
We ate at a cool seafood places right on the water. Good food, we got steamed chicken and green cabbage because we're sick of everything being fried and getting stomach aches after. We walked back after dinner and pick up some trinkets. I finally found a worthy hat to replace the Vatican Museum hat I lost on a train. Losing my brown Vatican Museum hat has been a tragic event for me. It took us a week or two to find a good enough hat.
At any rate, we headed back and called a couple people and packed up. We're planning on getting up at 6:30 tomorrow morning for the dunes, and are leaving for Saigon around noon.
One interesting thing we've noticed is that all the locals are always wearing pants, and usually wearing long sleeves. We honesty don't get it. We can't handle the heat when we're wearing our bathing suits, how do they go about their business in all their clothes. And these pants aren't like super light plants that actually keep you cooler, they're like jeans or khakis. It's absurd, but I guess their blood is thinner down here.
Anyways, I'm off to bed, it's already later than is hoped it would be for our early morning tomorrow.
"Travel does not exist without home....If we never return to the place we started, we would just be wandering, lost. Home is a reflecting surface, a place to measure our growth and enrich us after being infused with the outside world."
- Josh Gates
YOU LOSTTHE VATICAN HAT?!
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