Crab and Snake Saki

Reese and I ended up having a night out without each other last night. She ditched me first to go hang out with the girls so I retalliated in kind by going out for sea food with Prof. Peter Dimrock and some of the other students.

Had three Tiger beers, an order of 10 or so Tiger Shrimp and one whole crab. All of that cost me just under $15! From what I've heard that's about as expensive as it gets here. I could get used to this.

Dad posted a comment saying from my pictures and what I was saying that he was reminded of Taiwan, too. Yesterday I actually spent the morning at a shelter for girls who've been rescued from human trafficking and the building really took me back. Everyone there heard at least three times that it reminded me of my Taiwanese pre-school, right down to the light blue paint on the walls, tiled floors and shoe racks by the front door.

I really should have gotten a picture of the shoe racks and posted it right after that paragraph. Oh well, I'll apologize right now for this blog not being perfect.

Prof. Dimrock has promised to take those of us willing either tonight or tomorrow night to a restaurant where they serve cobra blood mixed with saki along with a fresh cobra heart. I won't say much more than that for now. He went into detail about the whole ritual. It's something I simply have to do and I'll post here with pictures and the full story.

I believe this weekend we go on a boat ride up the Mekong River and then spend a night someplace upstream. After that we make our way north to Da Nang and Hue. The last few days of the trip will be around Hanoi with a day at the beach on Halong Bay. We're all looking forward to the beach, I can tell you that!