"Drink at your own pace"

So said the Irishman to the American. Best advice an Irish father could give an Irish son and the best advice you could hear from a new Irish friend...but unfortunately it came a bit too late. I have a raging headache today from keeping pace with our new friends Oz and Jean last night. obviously all my fault, I have done this before with the Irish but i guess i just can't learn from old mistakes. at any rate it was a good evening and we got quite the history lesson on ireland and northern ireland. aside from irish history, yesterday was filled with embarrassing U.S. history. We visited the Cu Chi tunnels (famous for the Viet Cong in the War) as well as the war remnants museum. A pretty depressing museum tour but i have to blame it all on France...just kidding.

Hillary played the role of Rambo yesterday by clipping 5 rabbit targets at the firing range. You should have seen her shooting that AK-47! it was as if all she played as a kid was duck hunt...trigger finger galore. actually, it was quite the opposite. i had the luxury of snapping a photo of her prior to taking stance grasping her ears in fright of the blasts coming from the weapon next to her. not to worry though, we have time to work on her shooting skills (numchuck skills, bow skills...) when we get to Phnom Phen. We are leaving today by bus for Cambodia.

For me, this has been my second visit to Vietnam and i'm glad i had the opportunity to return because i enjoyed it much more this time around. not sure why i didn't find it as inviting four years ago but i hope to return again for the food has been amazing...the people, incredible and the motor scooters...well, the motor scooters have been pure entertainment. just a sea of them.

ps- hopefully we'll get to Laos...and maybe even play ping pong in ding dang. cheers!