NhaTrang, Vietnam

And then there was rain!

Typhoon Miriane hit central Vietnam Monday night. Gordy and I left Saigon on sunday for the beach hot-spot of Nha Trang- known for cheap drinks and great snorkeling. We arrived after 10 hours on a sleeper bus- which is completely worth the extra $2- to find that the storm had reached category 1 and would drop rainfall in the area for a solid week. Huzzah for that horridly pink bikini I bought in Saigon; it definatly got wet but not from the ocean.

We've been holed up in two different spots in Nha Trang: our cheap room that magically has the discovery channel and a local bar called Cheers! that has two Saigon beers for 20,000 Dong. It really is the bar where everyone knows your name-especially after two days of sittig at the same table. I taught Gordy to play Cribbage on the eve of the storm,and we have spent countless hours waiting for the rain to clear playing.

Before the storm hit,after stocking up on cheap bread and cookies, we went down to the water to watch the swells. The sheer power of the coming storm was incredible,and I watched a huge tanker in the bay slowly fight it's way across the water.

The rain has cleared for now,and we are taking a bus up to Hoi An tonight at 6. It arrives tweleve hours later, so maybe we could see some nice weather farther north on the coast. Gordy says its wishful thinking, but I still have hopes for my tacky-ass Bikini.