"Hey guys instead of wandering around do you want to just get the fuck out of this city?"

Okay, Vietnam is nuts. Straight up nuts. So we left Laos yesterday morning and met an Irish dude at our hostel who was also headed to Vietnam so we went with him to the airport. When we were waiting for the flight I was talking with the guy (Daniel) and you know how when I'm really excited my voice gets louder and louder? Well I was really excited about something or another and an asian dad came up to me and told me to "turn down the volume." Then a french dude turned to Ashley and was like "thank god he did that, she was so loud." Guess he didn't know Ashley was with me. Whoops. My bad. Anyway so we took a flight to Hanoi, Vietnam which was only about an hour and then we had to get our visas. We got really confused and ended up standing in the wrong line for about half an hour. Needless to say, Daniel wasn't waiting on the other side when we finally finished up. From there we took a taxi to the Old Quarter and...wowowow. This is where nuts comes in. Driving here is an absolute shit show. We actually hit a guy on a moto and I'm surprised we didn't hit more than one guy. There is absolutely NO order on the streets here and it is jam packed with cars, motos, bikes and pedestrians. Anyway so the driver dropped us off and we had to walk the rest of the way to the train station which took about an hour and a moto nicked Amy on the leg. We were going to walk around a bit once we bought our ticket but after this journey all we wanted to do was get on that train and get out.

At the train station a Vietnamese girl leaned over and showed me her phone. It said "Where are you from?" She had a translator on her phone so we talked for a bit and she taught me some Vietnamese. I used what she taught me to talk to the guy checking tickets and he was so impressed. Then he wrote down something on a paper and had me say it to him...so I did. Then he leaned in to kiss me. When I asked someone what it said later of course it said "Can I kiss you?" My newest pick up line for the Vietnamese boyzz.

We got on the sleeper train at 11 pm and it was small rooms with three-tier beds. Ashley was feeling very claustophobic so I let her have my bed because it was on the second tier and then I just shared a bed with Amy on the second tier. and we put our stuff on the top bunk. We got into Danang at 1:15 pm today and as soon as we walked out we were swarmed with taxi drivers grabbing us and trying to get us to go with them. Once again...nuts. We found a taxi and went to the Marble Mountains which is a beautiful place with huge marble sculptures and large marble steps leading you up the mountain. The view was amazing. It was right next to the beach and it looked like Santa Cruz to me. After that we got to our hostel and...WOW. We have a private room and..hot showers! The life of luxury! Now we're going to hit up a tailors in a bit because you can't go to Vietnam without getting a custom made outfit. So I hear. Oh and a sidenote..the currency is hilarious. 18,000 Dong per USD.