Wednesday, August 18, 2010

"Your flight has been changed back to 8:30 pm"

So..hmm..life has thrown another crazy curveball at us. We're currently in Danang instead of Ho Chi Minh City where we should be because the airport told us our flight was delayed until midnight (rather than at 8:30 pm) and then at around 8:30pm when we got back to our hostel Amy saw she had another email that basically said "just kidding." So we went to the airport anyway to see if there was another flight and the place was basically closed down. We managed to find a guy from Vietnam Airlines and he called the Jetstar manager for us. I talked to the Jetstar guy on the phone and explained the situation and he's letting us go on the flight to Ho Chi Minh city tomorrow morning at 8:30. Anyway the Vietnam Airlines guy was like "oh yeah by the way I'm the owner of a hotel" so he brought us to some random hotel..no wait his taxi driver did. The owner made us use his taxi driver rather than the one we already had and we agreed on the price of 70,000 dong total. When we got there though the meter said 31,000 so I said "no we're only paying 31,000" and this guy got furious. He said there was an "airport tax" and man, I had to yell at him and he ended up dropping the 1,000 d bill on the ground and walking away. Bleh. So now that I've explained the current situation I'll explain our day in Hoi An. We got up and went to a dress fitting for Amy since she got a dress made for her and all and after that we decided since we're in Vietnam we had to get pedicures. So we did and the girls there were really funny. One of them is an english teacher. We explored the town a bit more and basically had fittings to go to for various people every other hour. I got a really awesome winter jacket made for me. It's lime green with purple lining inside. Ballin. I kind of started to feel like a hollywood sleazebag though since I was getting clothes made for me and a pedicure. So yeah we walked around the town a lot and looked at the river which was nice and brown from the rainy season. There are so many old ladies with fruit and those cone-shaped hats that ask you to take their picture and then try to get you to pay them. This whole country is kind of like one giant scam; you always have to be on your guard. But there are also some really great, friendly people, don't get me wrong. So that's where I am in life right now.. it's been an interesting day. I've been the angriest I've ever been so far this trip but we've also laughed the most today than we have so far. Amy and I were comparing foreheads for an unecessarily long time both claiming that we have the smaller forehead. Ashley judged for us (Amy won)...(but that's only because her widow's peak counted as her hairline...just so you know). I could go on about all the weird stuff we've been laughing about but I would just be sitting here typing and chuckling and you people reading this (I love you all by the way) would just shake your heads...or have a blank stare on your face (which you probably have right now. Gotcha!) Okay we might be venturing out right now depending on the level of sketchiness. Over and out.

1 comment:

  1. And to think of how embarrased you used to get with me when I'd get mad at people.
    Welcome to the club!

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