June 29 Friday - Hanoi

We ARRIVED!!! We lost a day and suddenly it was Friday morning, the 29th. Whoot! A picked us up (yay!) and took us to breakfast. Pho!

We arrived at her house, and went downstairs to the mall and walked through the art installation that was down there, as well. This is what it looked like.

Before lunch M & K had a nap, and then we woke them when they'd asked. And then they fell back asleep, and we woke them up again for lunch for real this time. SO worth getting up for lunch, the food was so so so so so so good. Yum. There are going to be a lot of food pictures. This is the first of many. This is M to the left, A's grandmother at the head of the table, her grandfather behind on the sofa, A, and last her mom.

And ... part of lunch!

After lunch we drove to downtown Hanoi. My first experience of the traffice was shocking, it was unfathomable. There seemed to be no rules. You could pass whenever, wherever, and as many deep as you wanted. But the traffic moved slow enough so it always worked out.

We went to a mid-town lake and a red bridge that I guess A had given M a picture of, or painted a picture of at some point in the past. I couldn't get anybody else to pose, so selfie.

And once on the bridge K decided she COULD pose after all. She looks tired.

And all of us!!

We walked around some, went to the Bach Ma Temple. (the white horse temple)

And we went to the "Traditional House" which was a series of rooms with courtyards or open rooms in the middle.

 Sneaky picture of K & A before K knew she was being photographed by me.

 This was another temple, I think.

We kept walking, came to a ... church in the middle of Hanoi. It was some church, not sure what or why.

 And then dinner. Bahn My.

We took a Grab (the not Uber service in Hanoi) home. M & K fell asleep, but both of them said they didn't (they did). We went up on the roof of the apartment building and looked out, took some panorama photos, and then to bed around 11 pm.